Dolores O'Riordan Quotes
When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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General Clark walked the campus like a retired deity and ignored the general run of cadets.
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I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
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It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
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I try to eat healthily, but I love fried food and bad things. Give me a plate of bread, some oil and salt and I'm happy. But you can't eat like this all the time.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.
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I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.
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As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.
