Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.
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I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
