Conor Cruise O'Brien Quotes
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I don't feel the need to have to break out of anything or prove that I'm 'edgy.' Been there, done that mentality. I'm just ready to tackle on new projects that are challenging and help me continue to grow as an artist.
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All we have is the past, but for people of the future, there's not even going to be a history there. The history of recorded music has turned into a flat fucking screen of an iTunes playlist. I'm preserving something that's going extinct! That's all rock'n'roll has been since day one. It's all necrophilia.
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I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times.
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A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
