Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.
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I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
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Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
