John Darnielle Quotes
For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.
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I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.
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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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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
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When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly.
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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
