Brian Halligan Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.
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He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.
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From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.
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Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.
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We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
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I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
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Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.
