John Darnielle Quotes

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sports
  • Draw
  • Personalities

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Like
  • Make
  • Walls

• I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Laugh
  • Out
  • Loud

• The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Future
  • Change

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stars

• Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Change

• I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Write
  • Sing
  • Hum

• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • Democracy
  • For Him

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • History
  • Past
  • Change

• We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • More
  • Noise

• True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

  

  Leila Janah
  • People
  • True
  • Vision

• I think the US has the right to have its own national security policy. I think most Americans would agree with that. And therefore clarity on this issue is important and especially if we commit ourselves, explicitly and bindingly, to Israel's security.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important

• I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • House
  • Tree

• I'm the Lord of the Dance! Fuck Michael Flatley, it's me! ...Who has the balls to call themselves the lord of anything, huh? C'mon, last time somebody called themself lord on this planet, they got CRUCIFIED, Michael! And we know where the hammer and the nails are! We could put you up in a couple of minutes!

  

  Denis Leary
  • Up
  • Time
  • Couple

• Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Good
  • Music
  • Hustle