John Darnielle Quotes
You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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My health is fine.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students." I grinned, "You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.
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My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.
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You do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.
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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.
