Ed O'Brien Quotes
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.
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The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.
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You don't need the fame to be vital.
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.