Daniel Lyons Quotes
One way Groupon hopes to gain an edge is by using software to learn about its members so it can deliver more relevant offers: my wife will get the manicure-pedicure deal, but I'll get an offer on fly-fishing lessons. The key now is execution - delivering great customer service and keeping everybody happy on both sides of the transactions.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Being evil is easy.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.
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If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
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It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
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One way Groupon hopes to gain an edge is by using software to learn about its members so it can deliver more relevant offers: my wife will get the manicure-pedicure deal, but I'll get an offer on fly-fishing lessons. The key now is execution - delivering great customer service and keeping everybody happy on both sides of the transactions.
