Johnny Flynn Quotes
It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that, it's good to be exploring other stuff as well.
Quotes to Explore
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I've never been a partier.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
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I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that.
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To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that, it's good to be exploring other stuff as well.
