Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When we're on tour, probably we don't go 24 hours without someone asking us where we came up with the name They Might Be Giants. Which, on one level, seems like a completely legitimate question. If I think of other bands, like The Beatles, it would explain to me that John Lennon had a proclivity for slightly cheap puns. But I'm not sure how much insight that would give me into what's actually good about The Beatles' music.

John Flansburgh's Popular Quotes

I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.

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Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!

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It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

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There have been times I wanted to cry on interview, but it hasn't been because that's what they're trying to conjure. No. I think you have to graduat…

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Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'do…

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In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard becaus…

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That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'

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If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just say, the facts aren't in. Science is alway…

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I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

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