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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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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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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Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
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As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.
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Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.
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Stand-up is my baby.
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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.
