Dara O Briain Quotes
On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
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But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't move either, but birds and animals eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide.
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In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.
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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
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Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
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I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.
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Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.
