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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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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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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How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.
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With the disintegration of all that Nietzsche had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.
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Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
