Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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I eat next to nothing.
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.
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In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
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As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
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'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
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One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.
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Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
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I remember as a kid that I was always physically fit.
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I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
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We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.
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If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
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All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.
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We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.
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In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.
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As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
