Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
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All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.
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Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.
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The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.
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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
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I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else.
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If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
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It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
