Chris O'Dowd Quotes
Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
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I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
