Declan Lynch Quotes
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.
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Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.
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No, I'm not in the Illuminati.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
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If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.
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We aren't playing defense and we aren't rebounding the basketball. This has gotten off to a bad start, but we have to find a way to turn it around.
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The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
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Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
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Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.
