Josh Dun Quotes

We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.

Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots

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• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • You

• The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Believe
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  • House

• I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Trying
  • Learn
  • Diet

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Trying
  • Job
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• My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Trying
  • Crazy
  • Humor

• When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • Eyes
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• You go into each game looking to win. We're not looking at wins or losses because it proves something as a team. We go into every game trying to get better. As long as you compete, we're gonna play our hearts out; we're improving every day.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Long
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• Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Trying
  • Understand
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• I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

  

  Rafael Cruz
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  • Down
  • Consent

• There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Fear

• I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

  

  Win Butler
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Space

• My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Writing
  • Problem
  • Write

• I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Nature
  • Brain

• It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Trying
  • Weak
  • Despicable

• Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
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  • Culture
  • Enemy

• We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.

  

  Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Songs