O Quotes
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“One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.”
“One of the wonderful things about music these days is that it's less cliqueish.”
“One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.”
“One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive feeling to each segment. It's not reductive. It doesn't seem like sketch comedy.”
“One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.”
“One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book or a computer program. Then we can send that program or book to companies that specialize in reproducing them and distributing them.”
“One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.”
“One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.”
“One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.”
“One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.”
“One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.”
“One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want.”
“One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.”
“One of the worse things that could happen to a colored man was for him to be stranded by himself on a country road without a weapon.”
Source: Breaking Ice: an Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
“One of the worst cases of employee abuse that I witnessed in the workplace was a toxic manager holding employees captive in a remote location against their will to complete a project that was behind schedule. It was verging on kidnapping the employees.”
“One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.”
“One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.”
“One of the worst despots in my time in India was the Maharaja of Patiala. When a group of distinguished Indians once charged him with everything from rape to murder, Lord Irwin ordered an investigation – by a British official chosen by the Maharaja. The investigation was secret, and cleared the ruler. Shortly thereafter, the Maharaja withdrew his support for a self-governing India, and was immediately promoted by the King-Emperor to be an honorary lieutenant general in His Majesty's armed services. Though honorary, it was quite a high rank.
____footnote, Chapter 4”
Source: Gandhi: A Memoir
“One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.”
Source: The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857
“One of the worst elements of Obama's career, which no one talks about, is that he voted twice for a bill that said, if there is a botched abortion, if the child emerges from the womb alive, it should be okay to kill the baby. We have elected a president - twice! - who agrees with infanticide.”
“One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.”
Source: How to stop worrying & start living
“One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it..starts to make things darker.”
“One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.”
Source: The Sane Society
“One of the worst health conditions I have experienced was fecal urgency!”
Source: Pandemic Supplements
“One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.”
“One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.”
“One of the worst mistakes she ever made
was to stay when she should have left,
it was to give a second chance to those
who intentionally did her wrong.
She forgot this:
Some people never change, regardless
of how many times you give them a chance
they just enjoy hurting you, it's who they are.”
“One of the worst mistakes the United States Government ever made was to weaponize the Dollar.”
“One of the worst Mistakes you can do in Life, is blindly believing the Story of a Person about another Person, without hearing the Version of the other Person as well.”
“One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.”
“One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.”
“One of the worst pains in life is when your head tries to control your heart, knowing that following it will only break you even more. Yet, no matter how much you fight it, your heart still hopes, still hurts, and still refuses to listen to your mind.”
“One of the worst places to be, is on “no man’s land” where you are between a rock and a hard place. It is better for you to be cold than to be lukewarm. It is better for you to decide to fail than to stay on the sidelines and dream of great success. How long will you stand between two opinions?”
“One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.”
“One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time - but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what's coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you're locked into it.”
“One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.”
Source: Lying
“One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.”
“One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.”
“One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.”
Source: Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
“one of the worst things is when witnesses start talking to each other. As soon as you start talking to someone else, the story you have in your head changes. Human memory is rewritten like computer memory. You just get
the most updated file.”
Source: Truly, Devious
“One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.”
“One of the worst things that can happen to a man is for him to work and study hard in order to benefit others and make his own name and then be prevented by sickness, or perhaps death itself, from finally completing what he has begun”
Source: Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists
“One of the worst things that can happen to you as a woman is to marry a man who is ignorant, unteachable and not a true child of God.”
“One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.”
“One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.”
“One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.”
“One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.”
“One of the worst things you can do is put kindness out into the world and expect to get it back. Kindness isn’t meant to be reciprocated in vain. It’s a gift. Give it for the sake of giving it. Those who don’t give it back may need it the most, and that in itself is the reward.”
Source: When I See You Again
“One of the worst things you can ever think of is not feeling excited about the future”.”
“One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.”