Walter O'Brien Quotes

As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy - even at a young age - and would take the beatings for my friends, who were often smaller and scrawnier.

Walter O'Brien

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The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Jim Sturgess

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Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

Anna Lindh

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One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

Matt Dillon

ChangeThinkingYouOutBreakBeing

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

Tom Rachman

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One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.

Dick Cheney

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I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

Dean Ween

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I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it.

Chuck Klosterman

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I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

Aubrey Plaza

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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

William Penn

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Flight without feathers is not easy.

Plautus

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Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

Susan Estrich

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If I'm on a date, I don't want to talk business right away. Let it feel like a date. I don't want to talk about my job right then.

Pepa

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