Dan O'Brien Quotes
You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
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Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny.
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My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
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But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
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You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
