Michael O'Donoghue Quotes
Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.
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Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
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I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.
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As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
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It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
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He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.
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What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
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I've always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the 'Today' show; everyone's really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show.
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...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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At the base, it's about a man from America who doesn't quite fit in, with the comedy that entails. Everyone can relate to that, when things are lost in translation.
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So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.
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If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.
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Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.
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I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.
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Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?
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Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.
