Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
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Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you. You need a lot of self-discipline, but luckily, I have it.
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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I'm a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.
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The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.
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I have a friend who calls me the queen of the nightmares because I've always had really bad nightmares. I keep a notebook by the side of my bed, so I'll wake up in the night from a bad dream, and my heart's pounding, and I'm really scared, but I write it down, and sometimes I get ideas for books that way.
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Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
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I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
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There's a wide spectrum of possibilities in how to deliver a song.
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If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
