Neil Oliver Quotes
I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.
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This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.
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People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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To many, perhaps to most people outside the small company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is, nonetheless, a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.
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It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
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I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.
