John Darnielle Quotes
I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I don't believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it's unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another's joy, development, or unique perceptions.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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Art is an investigation.
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Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
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I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn't know how to change the strings.
