"The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else."

-- Pat O'Shane

#Mother Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.”
“I wouldn't have ever travelled so many of the wrong roads if I really knew God and who He really was too me and to the world. My identity would have been rooted in the truth of who He created me to be instead of rooted in figuring out who I was in all the wrong places and with many of the wrong people; especially guys.”

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“I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.”
“once a kittypet always a kittypet." -longtail”
“I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.”
“You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.”
“I couldn't hit an elephant's ***** with a bull fiddle.”
“World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.”

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