Eileen O'Brien Quotes
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.
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The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.
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Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate. I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.
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The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.
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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me.
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According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
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Whites have traded their culture for power.
