Chris O'Donnell Quotes
I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I don't like controversy.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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Accountability is a two way street. We can't just make it easier for us to fire people; we must make it easier for us to hire people. It takes VA an average of 240 days to complete the hiring process for executives joining VA from outside government. We are losing talented people because it simply takes too long.
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I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.
