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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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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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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We all have to make choices in life.
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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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My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and white. There's an in-between in everything. So look at that side, don't take one point, because then you are negating half of the other people. Try to find the logic on a problem, something that you believe, and take the position that you believe, but be very careful about it." So I was very well trained in that aspect.
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When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.
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Just woke up and read the text that drunk me text you. I take it all back, and you can’t have my power puff girl pillow either.
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We are a hopeful species. Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken.
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Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
