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One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with is the high-pitched drone of your nervous system.
Johann Johannsson
You
Experience
Nervous
Reading
System
John
Nervous System
About
Only
Cage
Sound
Left
Very
Influence
Where
Room
Your
Early
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.
John Avlon
Remember
Important
Syndrome
Tyrant
Obama
Him
Calling
Terrorist
Left
Bush
Comparing
Right
I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.
John Battelle
Experience
Before
Sold
Wired
Left
Transition
There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.
John Bercow
Conservative
Party
Conservative Party
Hiding
More
Fact
Over
Well
Years
Left
Denying
Moved
Centre
Much
Therefore
Right
Spectrum
I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran off and left me, and as darkness hurried in, I suddenly realised how far from home I was.
John Burnside
Home
Me
Darkness
Remember
Older
Ran
Some
Track
Known
Boy
How
How Far
Been
Off
Left
Walking
Childhood
Realised
Far
Suddenly
When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.
John Burnside
Work
Family
Old
Father
Cold
Damp
Ten
Ten Years
West
Years
Left
Quickly
Moved
Where
Fife
Then
Found
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
John Burroughs
Writing
Vision
Our
Saw
Catching
Tide
Fish
Left
Up
Reporting
Shores
After
Which
Places
Depressed
Low
Far
Us
The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.
John Candy
Great
Heart
Father
Emptiness
Loss
Left
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
John Caudwell
Time
School
Job
Say
Pottery
Part
Part-Time
Journalists
Like
Doing
Off
Left
Just
After
Short-Lived
Sweeping
Floors
Started
Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.
John Caudwell
Me
Ambition
Own
Ancestry
Wealthy
Had
Knowing
Been
Left
Replicate
Owned
Done
Quite
Businesses
I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'
John Cleese
Love
You
Culture
Thinking
Kind
Parent
Having
Well
Around
Cultures
Left
Going
Different
Different Cultures
When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.
John Dickerson
Mom
Me
Too Much
Young
Busy
Too
Alive
Would
Windows
Journals
She
Understand
Been
Left
Died
Much
Letters
Her
Things
We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.
John F. Kerry
Chaos
Secure
Traded
Left
Dictator
America
Less
It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.
John Glover
Cause
Nothing
Grass
Difficult
Cigarette
Determine
Fires
Like
Left
Get
Behind
Us
Gas
Started
I'm from Cebu. I was one year old when I came here to Cebu from Fujian, south China. I'm Cebuano. I left for Manila when I was 22.
John Gokongwei
Old
Year
Year-Old
Came
South
Left
China
Manila
Here
I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
John Gregory Dunne
Alone
Time
You
Own
Sense
Community
Resources
Spending
Inordinate
Angeles
No Sense
Liked
Los
Los Angeles
Odd
Balloon
Were
Lot
Left
Automobile
Really
Your
Reasons
Amount
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
John Henrik Clarke
History
Acceptance
People
Black
Community
Easily
Facts
Part
Come
Academic
Intact
False
Historian
Left
Did
Ended
Legitimate
African-American
Images
Slavery
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
John Hughes
Day
Every Day
Doctor
School
Every
Saw
High
High School
Obsessed
Opened
Until
Left
Romance
Theater
Movies
Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play.
John Hurt
Best
Sometimes
Think
Others
Idea
Judges
Always
Left
Decide
Actor
Play
Peculiar
When I left college, I just thought I could play tennis to delay getting a regular job and go there and try to make ends meet. But it's been a very different experience for me, fortunately.
John Isner
Me
Experience
Try
Job
Thought
College
Delay
Meet
Could
Tennis
Make
Go
Been
Left
Very
Getting
Just
Ends
Different
Regular
Fortunately
Play
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
John Kasich
History
National
Down
Jobs
Architect
Had
Budget
Most
Balanced
Balanced Budget
National Debt
Left
Debt
Chief
Modern
Modern History
Plan
Taxes
Cut
Created
Paid
Washington
Actually
Amount
Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.
John King
Sad
You
Sometimes
Debate
Big
Out
Feel
Left
No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats.
John Kline
Needs
Parents
Accountability
Suited
State
Local
Address
System
One-Size-Fits-All
More
Students
Developed
Leaders
Left
Than
Child
Bureaucrats
Behind
Taught
Us
Teachers
Washington
I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
John Lydon
Politicians
Through
Misrepresented
Like
Left
American
Often
Really
England
If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
John Lydon
Music
Will
Own
Possible
Tempted
My Own
Devices
Most
Make
Left
I'd never left America until I was 18.
John McEnroe
Never
Until
Left
America
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