Dan Rooney Quotes

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

Dan Rooney

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  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

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• I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

  

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• There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

  

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• I'm not a fan of action movies.

  

  Olivier Megaton
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• YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.

  

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• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
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• I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Think
  • Find
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• There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Time
  • Man
  • Situation

• I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

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  • Life
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• Like many moms in this country, I work to provide my child the best life she can have. It's tough. It's hard to take care of a sick baby all night, wake up tired, and have to go to work when all I want to do is spend time holding her.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
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• I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
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• It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

  

  Rafe Spall
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• I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

  

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• Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Job
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• One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

  

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• I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something – I worked in HR at the time – they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

  

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• There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Power
  • Attention
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• The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Wall
  • Made
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• No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • King
  • Talent
  • Existence

• Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

  

  Dan Rooney
  • Head
  • Nervous
  • Sand