Daniel Lyons Quotes
The iPhone is like 'omakase', the style of sushi where the chef chooses what you're going to eat, and might even tell you how to eat it - no wasabi allowed on this, no soy sauce allowed on that. Definitely no California rolls.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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I'm not graceful.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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In this country over the last five years pay has doubled, whereas output has slightly fallen. That is totally different from the position with many of our competitors. Pay in those countries has gone up hand in hand with productivity. Consequently, they have the jobs and we have a larger proportion of the unemployment.
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As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.
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Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
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The iPhone is like 'omakase', the style of sushi where the chef chooses what you're going to eat, and might even tell you how to eat it - no wasabi allowed on this, no soy sauce allowed on that. Definitely no California rolls.
