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 never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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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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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
