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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New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.
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To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
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John – I’m trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.
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I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.
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I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
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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.
