Daniel Okrent Quotes
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
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The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
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I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
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Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
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One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most.
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
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I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
