Dan O'Brien Quotes
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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People don't get my sense of humour.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.
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There are a lot of things at stake. They're undefeated. If we lose this game, we'll get behind, and that's something you don't want to create in your division. You definitely want to stay ahead of the game.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.
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Even when we were struggling, people had been reluctant to think that Iraq would turn out like Vietnam, a failure for the United States.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
