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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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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One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.
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And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt
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What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.
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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.
