Dave Eggers Quotes
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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I discovered 'The Shield' back around 2010, when the Archie superheroes were licensed to DC Comics. From there, I went back into the archives and discovered this whole universe of characters, and I was hooked.
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As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
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Google is not a synonym for research.
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If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
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I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.
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It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.
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Sometimes you have to think about letting people move on.
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I love watching people's dreams come true.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.
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'When everything is known, everything acceptable will be accepted.'
