William J. O'Neil Quotes
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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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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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
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I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
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I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.
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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
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Music's always been a big part of my life.
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When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.
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Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
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Forget the adage buy low and sell high.
