Dan O'Brien Quotes
I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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A good leader must be fair.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I played with different words like 'home run,' 'megahit,' and they just all sounded kind of 'blah.' So I put in 'unicorn' because they are - these are very rare companies in the sense that there are thousands of startups in tech every year, and only a handful will wind up becoming a unicorn company. They're really rare.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
