John Darnielle Quotes
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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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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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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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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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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
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You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.
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I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.
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A typical day in the Senate requires several trips to the Senate floor and back, although the journey is usually underground so that on some days, once I arrive at work, I never see the sun.
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You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it not existing. It's like a good book. What makes a good book is hard to say. I don't know. I just look for something that grabs me. I don't have a way of looking for a project, and I don't know many people that do. It's just year to year, and what's going around and what's there.
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
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At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.
