Dave Eggers Quotes
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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I love to push myself.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
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Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.
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I learned a lot from Direk Brillante Mendoza and Bing Lao.
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I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that the songs definitely all have stories in them; it's just nice to let people decide what they are. I think it's important that people hear it themselves rather than having me annotate it.
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What are we allowed to do when we’re looking for things we’re required to do?
