Flann O'Brien Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
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The most striking thing to me about human space flight and my own personal experience is that I've seen dramatic changes on Earth. We humans are rapidly changing the planet. I've watched Amazonia as the rainforest has been cut down. That's something I've seen out the window. I'm very worried about that.
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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Eric Nies: You're going to stop the whole country from having sex?Christine O'Donnell: Yeah. Yeah!Eric Nies: You're living on a prayer if you think that's going to happen.Christine O'Donnell: That's not true. I'm a young woman in my thirties and I remain chaste.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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One of the candidates running for governor is a 100-year-old woman. Yeah, the 100-year-old says she'd like to recall Governor Gray Davis, but more importantly, she'd like to recall where she left her teeth.
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Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
