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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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 greatest enjoyment possible to man was that which this philosophy promises its votaries-the pleasure of being always right, and always reasoning-without ever being bound to look at anything.
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Throughout your teens and twenties, it's pretty easy to live in a suspended reality - one where you never get old or need to spend much time thinking about 401Ks, mammograms, or renewing your license. You don't need me to tell you: that ends.
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It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
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The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.
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When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
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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.
