Flann O'Brien Quotes
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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It's pretty cool I'm known for FIFA. If you think of KSI, people instantly think, 'Ah, that FIFA YouTuber.' I didn't think I would be up there as the ambassador of FIFA on YouTube, but I'll take it.
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Avoir de l'argent c'est se libérer de l'argent.
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The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else.
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Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
