Daniel Lyons Quotes
Conventional companies try to find new uses for capabilities they already have. Transformers look at what the market needs and then go build it, hiring new people and/or taking people off other jobs.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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You need friends, especially in the theatre, you need friends. You need people to interchange with, interface with, connect with. Together you’re going to make it, you’re going to do it together, you’re going to put it on, whatever it is.
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The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.
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The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.
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When you work with people and are friends with them also, you have more of a shorthand. I think people relax more and it opens the door to being less precious and trying things that, when you're shooting and writing, it becomes much more collaborative - therefore funny, hopefully.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Conventional companies try to find new uses for capabilities they already have. Transformers look at what the market needs and then go build it, hiring new people and/or taking people off other jobs.
