Colm O'Rourke Quotes
I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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I'm lucky to have been blessed with a great family and a wonderful Christian wife.
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Form follows beauty.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!
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Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.
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I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
