John Delaney Quotes
Maryland's different than Virginia. Maryland has certain advantages that Virginia doesn't have and certain disadvantages... We should just worry about ourselves and not worry about comparisons.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
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'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
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I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn't be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008.
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The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.
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Maryland's different than Virginia. Maryland has certain advantages that Virginia doesn't have and certain disadvantages... We should just worry about ourselves and not worry about comparisons.
