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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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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'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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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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La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'
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I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel.
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You’ve been good to me, Inigo. But I really am like the weather. You can admire me, even love me, in your way, but I can’t love you back. To me you’re like a photograph. I can see right through you, examine you from all angles. You amuse me. But you don’t have enough depth ever to fascinate me.
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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.
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I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.
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I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
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Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself
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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.
