Tim O'Brien Quotes

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

Tim O'Brien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 1, 1946

Topics

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I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

Megan Rapinoe

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What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

Robert Kennedy

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I love doing photoshoots; it let's me really show off my personality, flair, and makeup within a photo.

Jeffree Star

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Our goal should be to achieve joy.

Ana Castillo

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I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

Trey Parker

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I'm largely health-conscious and work out during the week, but I don't punish myself at the weekends.

Trudie Styler

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When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

Sholom Aleichem

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In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Tom Robbins

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China, as a major nation of the world, as one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and as a member of the U.N. Council on Human Rights, should be contributing to peace for humankind and progress toward human rights.

Liu Xiaobo

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The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.

Craig Brown

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The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.

Bruno Maag

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I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music.

Armin van Buuren

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