John Darnielle Quotes
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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I grew up with Bond.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.
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Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.
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There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.
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Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
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These are very desperate conditions that we're in now. These are the wrong conditions for the use of fireworks of any kind under any circumstances.
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It was very shocking for me to read newspapers that openly criticised the government in South Korea. That is impossible in North Korea and almost impossible in China. I was really impressed, and I became addicted to reading the news and watching the media so I could learn about the world. North Koreans would be stunned if they experienced this.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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The choices I make - they have to be creative.
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At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.
