Dan O'Brien Quotes

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

Dan O'Brien

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PrideRememberLongYouOkayFail

Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay - just for way less.

Sophia Amoruso

BestWayThingsJustSomeLess

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

SurviveWriteArtistsWereStalin

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Roger B. Taney

FearPowerMoneyCorruptionOpen

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

Rolando McClain

LoveMyselfGameNothingBreakHow

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

Mike White

FunWorldEyeViewYouCreate

I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

Drew Barrymore

HomeOwnerUptightCertainly

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

Brian O'Driscoll

LifeMy LifeProfessionalKnowRugby

Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person to be my guide or my interpreter. That person makes money from me, I make money from him or her, we both learn about each other. It's an equal win-win relationship.

William T. Vollmann

RelationshipMoneyTravelMeHelp

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Willie Stargell

MoneyBaseballOpinionDreamPlaying

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.

Sean M. Carroll

FutureTimePastRememberEggYou

In my household, everything happens in the kitchen. My parents have this pretty big home, and it doesn't matter how big it is, we will all squeeze ourselves in the kitchen and just chat while my mom or dad cooks.

Selenis Leyva

HomeParentsMomKitchenMatterBig

My thesis topic was 'The value of a human life.' I asked people a question: 'Suppose you had some risk, a one in a thousand risk of dying - how much would you pay to eliminate it?'

Richard Thaler

LifeValuePeopleYouRiskQuestion

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