John Darnielle Quotes
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.John Darnielle
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
F. Murray Abraham -
In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
Naomi Klein -
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Aaron Stanford
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
Edmund Phelps -
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
E. O. Wilson -
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann -
I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
Mackenzie Davis -
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
Sam Houston -
Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
Kangana Ranaut
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In India, it's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.
Kangana Ranaut -
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham -
If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
Valerie Plame -
Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.
Eddie McClintock
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The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.
J. B. Jackson -
I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
Mackenzie Davis -
Great images take you on a journey via a single photograph. The depth and layers pull your eye all over the frame, causing you to pick up interesting pieces along the way, ultimately coming to a climax.
Jimmy Chin -
Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.
Summer Sanders -
My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
T-Pain -
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.
John Darnielle