Brian O'Driscoll Quotes
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I enjoy my life.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.
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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
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Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.
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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
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Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
