Niamh Cusack
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Lack of compassion and arrogance.
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Guys who use the word “snot.”
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Yogi Berra
Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees
Talking too much.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
The urge to be unpleasant to waitstaff in restaurants.
Those who create the doom.
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Convince myself that walking two miles a day isn’t boring.
Peyton Manning.
Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
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