Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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I do support people eating more vegetables. It's a good thing to do.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
