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 look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
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power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.
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I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.
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Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.
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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.
