Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes
Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
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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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Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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Prolonged mimesis of the alphabet and its fragmenting properties produced a new dominant mode of perception and then of culture.
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Honestly, I love this job - that’s not even some talking point. I love this job, and I want to keep this job. My kids are in school here in Michigan, and my family is here in Michigan.
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Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
