Daniel Lyons Quotes
We had hoped a tablet from Apple would do something new, something we've never seen before. That's not the case. Jobs and his team kept using words like 'breakthrough' and 'magical,' but the iPad is neither.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
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I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.
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Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
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I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.
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We had hoped a tablet from Apple would do something new, something we've never seen before. That's not the case. Jobs and his team kept using words like 'breakthrough' and 'magical,' but the iPad is neither.
