Dave Eggers Quotes
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.
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If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
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I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.
