Flann O'Brien Quotes
Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.
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When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
