John Darnielle Quotes
I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day.
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I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'
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I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
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The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!
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I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.
