Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
