Dave Eggers Quotes
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.
Quotes to Explore
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?
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It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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Bob Dylan: I do know what my songs are about.Playboy: And what's that?Bob Dylan: Oh, some are about four minutes; some are about five, and some, believe it or not, are about eleven or twelve.
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When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.
