John Darnielle Quotes
Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.
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Tell the truth.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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Is it ever too late for a sequel?
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
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I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO markets are showing is that the world has incredible demand for future-looking projects!
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative - I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
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In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.
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Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.
