John Darnielle Quotes

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

John Darnielle

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LoveLearningMusicGreatNew Things

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

TruthEffortClimbYouDownBring

I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.

Jesse White

GoodDaySchoolBaseballBasketball

There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.

Andrew Lincoln

FriendshipFearNothingLikeMortal

Follow your heart and make it your decision.

Mia Hamm

HeartDecisionFollow Your HeartYour

Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.

John Podhoretz

OptimismAmericanStrikeGenuineOut

Growing up, I would say, when we were racing go-karts back in the day, it was always our uncle. We were always looking up to our uncle. I mean, he won the Daytona 500, he's a very well-respected man, and we've always looked up to that.

Amber Cope

DayManGrowing UpLookingRacing

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

Roberto Alomar

ExcusesMakeBallplayer

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

Judith Tarr

WorldNumbersWaySheTrophyGaze

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

Anton Corbijn

GreatSimpleBalancePhotography

I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

Susan Boyle

LiveGreatMyselfSupportMeHouse

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

Ricky Gervais

MeLookGoShut UpTellUp

My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel.

Nicola Sturgeon

GoodWomenPoliticsWorldSomeone

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