Conor Cruise O'Brien Quotes

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

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• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• I want to be a soldier as my father was.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Father
  • Want
  • Soldier

• I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Why
  • Rock

• My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Player
  • Goal
  • Same

• I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Done
  • High
  • Kind

• I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Now
  • Evidence
  • Cards

• I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Love
  • Help

• I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Friends
  • Stars
  • Cinema

• I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

  

  Edmund White
  • Eyes
  • Happiness
  • Celebrity

• The typical old-fashioned diet was so bad it almost resembled modern dieting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad

• However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.

  

  E. W. Howe

• Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Literature

• If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lonely

• In our culture, security has become an obsession.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Culture

• I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God?

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • God
  • Long
  • Soul

• The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

  

  John Niven
  • People
  • Home
  • Alone

• That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Impulse

• I am very conscious about picking my roles and make sure that they are different.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Different

• I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department, and that's not saying much.

  

  Edgar Wallace
  • Illusion
  • Suffer
  • Department

• The integrity of the game is everything.

  

  Peter Ueberroth
  • Game
  • Everything
  • Integrity

• You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

  

  Conor Cruise O'Brien