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
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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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He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Periander
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We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever
Bert McCracken
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I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
Sam Kean
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
Olivier Theyskens
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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
