Dan O'Brien Quotes
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
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My sister Tala has twins, and they're wonderful.
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When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
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It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
