Daniel Handler Quotes
Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.
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People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
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We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn’t arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...
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Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects-seeming breakdowns in the course of nature itself.
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The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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But one thing she Rachel did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.
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I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
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I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.
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Your kids have these big emotions they can't put into words.
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Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.
