Dave Eggers Quotes
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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I wasn't a great athlete.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
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I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.
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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.
