Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) Quotes
My friend and I were in a band together and we used to always refer it it as 'floor-core,' meaning that we would sit on the floor and play stuff.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.
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When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.
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I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. After you hang up the phone, you never hear a dog say, 'You're a liar, and you are making the same self-sabotaging mistakes that have kept you single for far too long.'
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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Two headlights shine through the sleepless nightand I will get you, get you aloneYour name has echoed through my mindAnd I just think you should, think you should knowThat nothing safe is worth the driveAnd I will follow you follow you homeI'll follow you follow you home
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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My friend and I were in a band together and we used to always refer it it as 'floor-core,' meaning that we would sit on the floor and play stuff.
