Brian F. O'Byrne Quotes
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
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Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
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I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.
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Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
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From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
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The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
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My local newspaper, the 'Bend Bulletin,' interviewed me while I was at high school after I had just signed with the University of Oregon. I remember I wore a University of Oregon hooded sweatshirt, and they took a picture of me in the long jump pit. I was freezing!
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It brings some light into what is otherwise a very dark box.
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There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
