Patrice O'Neal Quotes
People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
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When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.
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I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.
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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
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People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.
