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

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Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot." A lot of times, interviews are like being asked a list of questions. Invariably, there will be this part where they think you're a writer for Letterman: "Just off the top of your head, tell me the 10 most influential bands on you." And you're actually asked to come up with a spontaneous list. It's like, "Dude, I'm not living in High Fidelity."

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

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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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