Daniel Handler Quotes
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
Daniel Handler
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
Dana Schutz
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
Kapil Dev
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
Becky G
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Sam Harris
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
Maajid Nawaz
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The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust.
Dana Boente
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
Adam McKay
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We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
Nate Ruess
Fun.
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The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Adam Carolla
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The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.
Mao Zedong
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What's more American than violence?' Hayduke wanted to know. 'Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.
Edward Abbey
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Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
Charlotte Bronte
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Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans fire. He's chained to a rock and bemoaning his fate and saying, "I gave you everything. By giving you fire, I gave you blind hope. By giving you a little light that kept you warm at night, I let you believe that this was all going to be okay." For me, that's what art has been. Music and books, it's an act of hope to make them, and it's an act of hope to listen to them. That hope will be dashed, you will say goodbye.
Torquil Campbell
Broken Social Scene
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If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.
Masashi Kishimoto
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Meantime I say to both sides of industry, 'Please don't support us with general expressions of good will and kind words, and then undermine us through unjustified wage increases or price increases. Either back us or sack us.'
James Callaghan
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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
Daniel Handler
