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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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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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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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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And my girlfriend, she's FAT! How fat? She's so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone!
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It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.
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I've never met a successful pessimist.
