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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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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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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I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
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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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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
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I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.
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If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage other people who are in fact innocent in the whole situation, I think you ought to re-examine whether what you're doing makes sense.
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Lemony Snicket
