Erin O'Connor Quotes
For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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It's just fun to be in Paris.
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It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.
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Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
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For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.
