Dan O'Brien Quotes

After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

Dan O'Brien

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When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

Joe Biden

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I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

Jennifer Lopez

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The day will happen whether or not you get up.

John Ciardi

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The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.

Andrew Mason

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My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

Stephen Hawking

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You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.

Steve Prefontaine

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The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Christopher Hitchens

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People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Clotilde Hesme

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It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!

Brett Young

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Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

Art Donovan

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Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Paul Tournier

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'S.N.L.' is the comedy establishment. Of course you want to go through that, because you want that stamp of approval. But it has its own identity, and our voices didn't mesh for whatever reason - or they decided we didn't belong.

Noel Wells

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