Daniel Handler Quotes
The world is a harum-scarum place.' 'Harum?' Sunny asked. It's complicated and confusing,' Olivia explained. They say that long ago it was simple and quiet, but that might be a legend.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?'
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I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.
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Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.
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One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.
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Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
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The world is a harum-scarum place.' 'Harum?' Sunny asked. It's complicated and confusing,' Olivia explained. They say that long ago it was simple and quiet, but that might be a legend.
