Brendan Dooling Quotes
Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
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If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.
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In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
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Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
