Daniel Johnston Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
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My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!
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Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.
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I don't really like the idea of putting myself in any category now... I think that people are looking for music that's real and honest and that they can relate to emotionally.
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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Jack Benny: We're a little late, so good night, folks.
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When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.
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Let us pray...Oh, uh, please don't feel like you can't participate if you're not Christian, because this is a prayer for all faiths...
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.
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I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.
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Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.
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People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.
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And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest player and the one guy I would take would be Larry Bird.
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Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.
