Danny Wallace Quotes
Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.
Quotes to Explore
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
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This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
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I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.
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Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.
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You shall become the person you are.
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All wars today tend to be netwars.
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Reform is not a one-night stand.
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Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.
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Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.
