John Allison Quotes
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Television was essentially my college.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
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Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the fuck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
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I remember the shock of seeing Ray undressed. He looked as if he had a squirrel hanging there. I had an acorn.
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I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security!
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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.
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Bitcoin can be programmed, metered, and exchanged by connected devices, enabling more efficient usage of our planet's resources and services.
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We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
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As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.
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My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It's the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.
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I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
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I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.
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I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.
