Daniel Handler Quotes
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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I'm not a party person.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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I've been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I'm in the chair. He'll ask: 'How you doing? How's the training going?' Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
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In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
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When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
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The object of all true Philosophy is to frame a system which shall comprehend human life under every aspect, social as well as individual. It embraces, therefore, the three kinds of phenomena of which our life consists, Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions.
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I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.
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The worst thing in the world is to be tired.
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I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
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The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
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Beatrice.
