Dave Eggers Quotes
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
