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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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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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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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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The trend is your friend.
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It was good to play St. Joseph because down there in Corpus Christi and in the playoffs, they allow all the physical stuff like that.
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When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a recollection of hearing electric guitar in Lionel Hampton's big band in the 1940s and date it to that decade, you'd still be off - by more than 30 years.
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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.
