John John Florence Quotes
One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I'm just an actor.
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Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
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I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn't do anything for me.
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Chobani did a really wonderful yogurt campaign on 'Instagram' to shift perceptions away from the fact that they were just yogurt. And they had a 7-point incremental lift on shifting that perception through a brand advertisement on Instagram.
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I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
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One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.
