Brian Fallon Quotes
Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.
Quotes to Explore
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
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We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
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Friday, 14 March,
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Instinct is the direct connection with truth.
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In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.
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The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share.
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I stand on stage hoping to give good energy to the audience, but if I cannot give good energy anymore, I will have to leave right away.
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Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.
