Danny Gokey Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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It is always the right time to do the right thing.
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The thing is, I'm a competitor by nature. I like to compete.
