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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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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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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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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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.
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I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.
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We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
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A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
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Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.
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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.
