Aoife O'Donovan Quotes
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
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I can barely turn on my computer!
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
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I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
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At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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I turn left for a living.
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What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
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You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger.
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Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.
