Ed O'Neill Quotes
I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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The moon's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
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I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.
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Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
