Domhnall Gleeson Quotes
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person. I mean there’s every single kind of horrible self-help book will tell you if you’re feeling down and you’re feeling depressed just go help someone out and it’s a cliché, you wouldn’t even say it it’s so embarrassing, except it happens to be true.
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To say anything was useless, to say nothing was cowardly. 'I think it a bad idea, Sir.'
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I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.
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I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.
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I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
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Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
