Daniel Johns Quotes
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
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When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.
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I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.
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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Having hibernation weekends where I just sleep for hours on end. Working out when you have those spare moments. All of that is very important.
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Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the week.
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It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.
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I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep
