Michael O'Leary Quotes
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
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One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.
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It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.
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When I was a sophomore, a friend asked me to go to a local acting seminar with him. Two guys were very interested in me and wanted me to come out to L.A. I wanted to finish high school before doing anything like that. I figured they’d just forget about me, but they kept after me for two years.
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Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
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"I wanted to be a director. I had started meeting people with scripts. One of those scripts of mine was very recently destroyed by a dear friend of mine. It was called Veer. Anyway, every place I went to with a script, they’d always tell me I should be an actor. They probably didn’t have faith in me as director. They thought what will this 17-18 year old boy direct? What sensibility will he have?
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We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.
