Darcy O'Brien Quotes
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Good service means never having to ask for anything.
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But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.
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I lost interest in being in the public eye.
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If you love someone, you stand by him, forever, no matter what.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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You can't play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way without giving the audience the sense that there's something behind that mask waiting to get out, that he's a little crazed; he's strange.
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The United States should.... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests.
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Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.
