Dan O'Brien Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not that I was trying to write that song for a year, but sometimes you just kind of collect lyrical and musical ideas and don't actually complete the song until you feel like they work together and have a home.
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I agree with President Trump that we need good jobs in this country, but let's get to that business rather than the distractions of repealing Obamacare or raiding communities and taking otherwise law-abiding, contributing citizens away from their families.
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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.