William J. O'Neil Quotes
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.
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An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .
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I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object of mockery and disgust in your average sitcom or movie or person at school.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
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I've never met a successful pessimist.
