Daniel Handler Quotes
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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I don't need to publish to make a living.
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
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Die Technologie enthüllt das aktive Verhalten des Menschen zur Natur, den unmittelbaren Produktionsprozesss seines Lebens, damit auch seiner gesellschaftlichen Lebensverhältnisse und der ihnen entquellenden geistigen Vorstellungen.
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
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Setbacks help you to concentrate.
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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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Lemony Snicket
