Chris O'Dowd Quotes
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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I'm a typical California boy.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.
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I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.
