Dan O'Brien Quotes
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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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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 view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
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And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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I still have a young attitude.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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The culture of suppressing women composers and performers goes centuries back in Germany and other countries. Just think of Fanny Mendelssohn and the struggles she and many other women had to endure to get their music recognized. How many women's compositions were left to languish in attics, only to be thrown out by future generations! So much has been lost over the centuries.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
