John Darnielle Quotes
I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.
Quotes to Explore
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer.
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There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.
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We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
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I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.
