Dan O'Brien Quotes
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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I'm really good with fighting with my feet.
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I don't think I ever used the word passive, but I do think he was looking to feed his teammates. He was looking to pass first and shoot later. This game, I want him to carry the threat.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
