John Darnielle Quotes

Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.

John Darnielle

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In the ongoing effort to combat Ebola, more needs to be done to rewrite the public-health narrative. It must move from one that has been infused with fear to one that recognizes the hope for survival that supportive care can offer infected people.

Joanne Liu

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I don't have a strict diet where I have to eat 100g of this, 200g of that, but before, I had a problem with sweet things, so I cut them out completely.

Robert Lewandowski

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Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

Jeev Milkha Singh

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When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.

John Tavener

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When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

Steven Wright

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We are using both visual biomarkers, MRI and a panel of blood and tissue testing including work on telomere length with Spectracell and Life Length and epigenetic testing.

Liz Parrish

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So many artists try to be something that they're not.

Johnny Van Zant

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A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

Christina Ricci

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I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.

Cilla Black

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Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

Peter B. Lewis

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I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.

Paul Theroux

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There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

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