Finneas (Finneas Baird O'Connell) Quotes
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
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I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.
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Most days, I'll wear lipstick. It's always been a thing for me - my mom has a lot of them, and I'd always use hers. Eventually, I started buying my own because my mom has lighter hair and lighter skin, so we don't always look good in the same colors.
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You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record.
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Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.
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We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.
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I think if you're not trying to change things a little bit, you're not evolving.
