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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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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The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal
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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.
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I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.
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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.
