Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.
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Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
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It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
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Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.
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I'm really a pacifist.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
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There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
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The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.
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Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.
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We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.
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I prefer rock music—my favorites are R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet—but I think that if Dr. Buckley played Matthew Sweet, some of her patients would not like it. Matthew Sweet has a song called “Sick of Myself,” and I am pretty sure that is exactly the wrong song name for a therapist’s waiting room.
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While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
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A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.
