Dan O'Neill Quotes
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I believe in my music.
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
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The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
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People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
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I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious.
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No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.
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The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
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Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.
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General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
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Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.
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One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.
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It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
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I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.
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You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.
