Dan Chaon Quotes

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

Dan Chaon

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LifeGriefCuriousPeopleLossOver

Sleeping and being asleep is one of my favorite activities. Really, what I wanted to do is provide a landscape or a musical place where people could fall asleep.

Max Richter

PeopleLandscapeFallPlaceSleeping

For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.

Steven Crowder

WorldBe DifferentYoungBecomeSee

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

Simon Mainwaring

TodayRespectPurposeBalanceProfit

A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.

Trae Young

FamilySchoolTexasGrowYouWant

The first time I saw the Dutch character known as Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, my heart sank, and I felt a little nauseated.

Roger Ross Williams

CharacterHeartTimeBlackFirst

Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.

Ruth Negga

WomenMoralKnowAlwaysSoftCenter

It's a privilege to serve in Washington, D.C., but I never lose sight of what the Lord has called me to do in my life. And that is to be, first a husband, and then a father, and succeed there from His perspective, and He'll take care of everything else.

Mike Pence

LifeFatherPerspectiveMeSucceed

I'm not a publicity hound. I don't care about being on the cover of 'GQ' or 'Vanity Fair.'

Michael Madsen

CareVanityFairBeingPublicityGQ

I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.

Derrick Jensen

LiveMeWorldImportantWantGet

My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.

Donovan

AlwaysLinesBassMelodyIncluded

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

Chloe Sevigny

GodJobMeNightAnxietyUp

I've always believed in local government.

Chuck Fleischmann

GovernmentAlwaysLocal Government

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