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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The thing about the four-camera shows is that it's kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience, but you have a camera to capture things, so that's a great thing, too.
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It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I was never an ingenue. I've traveled the globe, I've backpacked through South America, I've done conservation work in Africa. I was never the girl who knew nothing of the world.
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Change is good, but in the middle of it, it can be very sad.
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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.
