John Bacon Quotes
When I think about my long-term career as an educator, the thought of being able to do that in Iowa City was especially important to me because it is my home, ... It's kind of my frame of reference. I always think back to my experience at Lemme. My goal is to continue and advance the rich tradition that Lemme does have.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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Justice is revenge.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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When I think about my long-term career as an educator, the thought of being able to do that in Iowa City was especially important to me because it is my home, ... It's kind of my frame of reference. I always think back to my experience at Lemme. My goal is to continue and advance the rich tradition that Lemme does have.
