Dara O Briain Quotes
If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.
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The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty nest is learning to put myself first.
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There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.
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So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's working to reduce emissions, whether it's working to nail down our renewables, whether it's ensuring great efficiency in accessing all of our energy sources.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.
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When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.
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Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
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I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!
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Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.
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Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.
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'Spell it Out' rose to be number 4 on the best-selling Amazon chart - ahead of 'Fifty Shades of Grey!' Who ever would have thought that spelling would one day beat sex - even if it was for only a few hours!
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All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.
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I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it, too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
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If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?
