Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Advantage
  • Stardom

• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Things

• The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Chinese
  • More

• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Program
  • Wear
  • Sunscreen

• I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Poverty

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• We need to encourage and reward those who play by the rules.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann

• Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Work
  • Book

• I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.

  

  Christen Press
  • College
  • Soccer

• I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Animal

• There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • People
  • Sobriety

• I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Game

• One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • People
  • Remember
  • Fun

• I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

  

  Marian McPartland
  • Bad
  • Hate

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Up
  • She
  • House

• We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Dressed
  • Blokes
  • Girl Band

• Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Up
  • Running
  • Question

• Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

  

  Dick Wolf
  • People
  • Money
  • Running

• I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Running
  • Directors