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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My Auntie CeCe - I can kind of joke and say all I need to do is pray. But that's literally what she does... She lives what she sings. I've learned a lot about her in that way, so in bringing her to the stage, I knew what sort of demeanor she needed to have. Her songs are very reflective of who she is in real life.
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I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women - even very beautiful ones.
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I started 'The Daily Show' when I was 22. I was going to class at Long Beach.
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How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
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The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.
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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.'
