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.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Him

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• 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.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Work
  • House

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • World
  • American

• I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Inspire

• One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Better
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Think

• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• 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.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Maternal

• 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.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Help
  • Road
  • Red

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Passion
  • Inspiration

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Why
  • Try
  • Learned

• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Greatness

• The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

  

  Francis Spufford
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Belief

• Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • People
  • Past
  • Evil

• For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Time
  • Words
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  John Bacon
  • Experience
  • Career
  • City