Caragh M. O'Brien Quotes
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
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We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
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Further, science is a collaborative effort.
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Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.
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Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only way." You are free to acquire new perspectives, to absorb new ideas, and to question everything you were taught to believe. As your mind opens to exploration and change, you'll feel a new lightness and more joy.
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When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
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There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.
