Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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I love New York. Love it.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'
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I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.
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'I got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. I told her I'd had an epiphany that night about using stencils and she told me to stop taking that drug 'cos it's bad for your heart.'
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I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced, but it also makes it hard to get work seen by people because if you're a creator, you do a cabaret or something, and maybe 100 people will see it and then it ends the night that you close it.
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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
