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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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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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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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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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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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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After Bill Shawn was fired, I was going to the YMHA Young Men's Hebrew Association on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.
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Beatrice.
