Josh Dun Quotes
After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
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There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.
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Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
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I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.
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I think you can be in disagreement with a president you support without being disrespectful or nasty or snide.
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After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.
