Daniel Johns Quotes
People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.
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Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.
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God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.
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People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
