Daniel Handler Quotes
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
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It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.
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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
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I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn't matter.
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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.
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One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.
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Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
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For Beatrice-I would much prefer it if you were alive and well.
