Michael O'Leary Quotes
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'
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If all else fails, birdie the last.
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One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.
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There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
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We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.
