Dan Monson Quotes
People remember you as you leave a program not in the middle of it or how you came in. And I think that's something they're all trying to focus on.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
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I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they're not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.
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We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
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Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
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People remember you as you leave a program not in the middle of it or how you came in. And I think that's something they're all trying to focus on.
