Denis Johnson Quotes
What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.
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Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
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A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.
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What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.
