Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
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The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's natural trends beyond its capacity to adjust.
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I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.
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I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
