Daniel Lyons Quotes
Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
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Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
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We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
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I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
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Tax what you burn not what you earn.
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When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
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Many of my patients respond to stress not by noticing and naming it but by developing migraine headaches or asthma attacks.15 Sandy, a middle-aged visiting nurse, told me she’d felt terrified and lonely as a child, unseen by her alcoholic parents. She dealt with this by becoming deferential to everybody she depended on (including me, her therapist). Whenever her husband made an insensitive remark, she would come down with an asthma attack.
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Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
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Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.
