Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes

I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.

Cathy O'Neil

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• First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

  

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• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

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• Life is such a tragicomedy.

  

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• Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.

  

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• Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

  

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• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

  

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• I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

  

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• My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

  

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• I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

  

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• The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

  

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• The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

  

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• It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.

  

  Mark Rutte
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• I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.

  

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• I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

  

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• I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.

  

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• We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

  

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• I've got to have a bet going in order to play my best.

  

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• My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

  

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• The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

  

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• It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
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• The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

  

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• I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • People
  • Giving
  • Ends