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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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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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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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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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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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
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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.
