Patrice O'Neal Quotes
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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.
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Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
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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.