Patrice O'Neal Quotes
If you tell me 2 + 2 is 4, and I know it is, then you... shove marbles up your ass, I go 'Damn, Anthony shoves marbles in his ass?' But the fact that you shove marbles in your ass doesn't invalidate 2 + 2 = 4.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
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Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.
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If you tell me 2 + 2 is 4, and I know it is, then you... shove marbles up your ass, I go 'Damn, Anthony shoves marbles in his ass?' But the fact that you shove marbles in your ass doesn't invalidate 2 + 2 = 4.
