Aaron Dessner Quotes
Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.
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Politics has become entertainment.
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There's some of me in all my characters.
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
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My dad was always so strict that I was scared to speak to him. Haitian parents are very, 'This is adults' business; this is kids' business.'
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
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I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
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Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.
