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

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

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• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

  

  Ovid
  • Courage
  • Body
  • Strength

• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Different
  • Style

• I think I'm a soulful singer.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Singer

• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Different
  • Start
  • Gender

• When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Different
  • Style
  • Value

• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Health

• Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Security
  • Immigration
  • Legal

• A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Different
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Way
  • Me
  • Experiences

• Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

  

  Pat Morita
  • America
  • You
  • Comedy

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• There's something healing about tears.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Tears
  • Something
  • Healing

• McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Businessman

• StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better way to transact certain segments of ecommerce. We are going to bring the kind of trading platform and visibility to tangible products that financial and commodities markets have used for decades.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Live
  • Financial
  • Internet

• There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Yourself

• I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Desire
  • Imagination
  • Feel

• As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.

  

  Sania Mirza
  • People
  • Long
  • Care

• I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • People
  • Leader
  • Disaster

• Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Different
  • Mind

• I want to set people up for success, like a good diet plan. If I pick just one, it may not be the right one for you. That's why there are 500 shifts, so you can literally flip it open and have an easy starting point.

  

  Elizabeth Rogers
  • Success
  • Diet
  • Flip

• Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

  

  Peyton Manning
  • Form
  • Imitation
  • Flattery

• Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Theater
  • Flattery
  • Sheer