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The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.


Tim O'Brien

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TIM MATHESON I think there are a lot of things out there that are humorous that people don't realize until yo...
TIM CONWAY Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's eve...
TIM JACKSON Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a h...
TIM O'BRIEN The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, b...
TIM RYAN Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in ...
TIM KAINE Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chroni...
TIM MURPHY And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you&#...
TIM TEBOW I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no conse...
TIM KAINE I always liked strange characters.
TIM BURTON There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y...
TIM ROTH Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues'...
TIM CAHILL I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was ...
TIM ROBBINS I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the h...
TIM BURTON Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.
TIM FARGO Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man ...
TIM CAHILL We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.
TIM BISHOP If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing ...
TIM HOWARD My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less pe...
TIM WALBERG