Barry O'Sullivan Quotes
Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.
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It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.
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I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.
