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.
Nathan Kirsh -
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor -
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Otto Lilienthal -
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.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
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.
Laura Robson
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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?
Zadie Smith -
I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
Olivia Thirlby -
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.
Gail Simmons -
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.
Val McDermid -
The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
Mandy Moore -
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson
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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.
Libba Bray -
The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.
Albert Camus -
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Anton Chekhov -
I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.
Ara Parseghian -
I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was.
Mary Beard -
It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
Leslie Banks
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Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.
Jill Lepore -
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Whites have traded their culture for power.
Eileen O'Brien