Dave Eggers Quotes

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

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• Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Political
  • Been
  • Euro

• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Get
  • Inside
  • Struggling

• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Unusual
  • Itself
  • Alaska

• I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Forget

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• I am so proud to have the endorsement of a distinguished leader like Glenn Poshard.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Proud
  • Leader
  • Endorsement

• I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Talk
  • Reveal

• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Parents
  • Actor
  • Director

• Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Best
  • Sports

• I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Work
  • Different
  • Performers

• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Good
  • Future

• Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Work
  • Achievement
  • Fame

• I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Couple
  • Successful
  • First

• Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Up
  • World
  • Taken

• Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Friends
  • Free
  • College

• I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Helping
  • Pregnancies

• There's those young girls that I once was, looking up to Mia Hamm, Christine Lilly, all those players, and I know how much of an effect they had on me. Knowing that, I feel like I'm in a position where I can really help be a positive influence in girls' lives.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Up
  • Help
  • Positive

• I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fans

• American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

  

  Max Irons
  • American
  • Confidence

• We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Works

• Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.

  

  William A. Rusher
  • Citizens
  • Supreme
  • Justified

• I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

  

  Dave Eggers