Roger O'Donnell Quotes
I would love to work with Billy Corgan but then he knows that… I dream of playing with Herbie Hancock but I think if it ever happened I would just break down and cry!
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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I love design.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!
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'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.
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You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.
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At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.
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I would love to work with Billy Corgan but then he knows that… I dream of playing with Herbie Hancock but I think if it ever happened I would just break down and cry!
