Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff. You just get me an In-N-Out burger and some Popeye's fried chicken and I'm straight.
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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
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We need visions of a future in which we have applied our infinite creativity to the task of living on a finite world, where we have embraced our role, become comfortable and proficient as planet-shapers, and learned to use our technological skills to enhance the survival prospects not just of humanity but of all life on Earth.
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People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
