Michael O'Leary Quotes
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
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Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching.
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If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
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The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
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I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.
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Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.
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Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.
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I love Wisconsin, but it made my life better (when he went to Cup racing). I had done about everything in short tracks that you can do. It was a new challenge for me to come down here and it gave me a new look on life. It was a different battlefield that gave me a new lease on life.
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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.
