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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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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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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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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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 can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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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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Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
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The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.
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I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.
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I've never met a successful pessimist.
