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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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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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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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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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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The fans, with all due respect, they don't affect the decisions I would make as a coach.
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Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
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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.
