Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
Lactantius
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
Mandy Patinkin
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
Kara Swisher
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You change the world by being yourself.
Yoko Ono
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Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
Eddie Slovik
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
Gale Sayers
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
Vincent Van Gogh
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripides
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You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
Blaise Pascal
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All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
Raina Telgemeier
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Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
Saadi
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Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Carroll O'Connor
