Daniel Breaker Quotes
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
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There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
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If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.
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I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.
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The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.
