John Darnielle Quotes
I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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A cupcake is just a muffin with clown puke topping.
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What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.
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I am a firm believer in praxis, and I don’t have much time for the idea of the loner of genius who does everything all by himself. You need other people as well, at every level.
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It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.
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I never felt interpretation was my job.
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I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
