Patrick O'Brian Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.
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I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
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You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
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There are only two emotions from our perspective ....... The one that feels good, that feeling of hope or happiness or love. That good feeling, that positive emotion, is guidance saying, that which you are thinking right now is in alignment with what you are wanting
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The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.
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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.
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As we put autonomous cars on the road, connect Alexas to our lights and our thermostats, put ill-protected Internet-connected video cameras on our houses, and conduct our financial lives over our cell phones, our vulnerabilities expand exponentially.
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Desolation Island (1979)
