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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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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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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I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.
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Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.
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Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
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It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.
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I've never met a successful pessimist.
