Aaron D. O'Connell Quotes
Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.
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I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.
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I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase 'family values' and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away?
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God is a politician; so is the devil.
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I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.
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I did an internship with Dove when they were doing the 'real beauty' campaign, and I was really inspired by that. Growing up in L.A., being a young woman, and seeing how the media tells young women to be everything you're not, I kind of wrote about that experience.
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
