Austin O'Malley Quotes
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.
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You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
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Certainly in my youth there was lots of singing, lots of storytelling, and whenever we went to a party, you had to do a party piece, like sing songs, recite poems, or tell stories. That sort of narrative musical culture was my upbringing.
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Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
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Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
