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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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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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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I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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Find someone within the company who is on another team but is at a similar level or role as you to be a friend, a sounding board, and a place to go for candid feedback. Find a mentor within the company who resembles the leader you'd like to grow to be.
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At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.
