Patrice O'Neal Quotes
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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I'm still very much Kate.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I meditate and I'm passionate about it.
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Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.
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I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
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I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.
