Dave Eggers Quotes
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I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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I wanna live.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
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Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
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When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...'
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I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class’s teacher, when the class got to Evangeline, kept echoing in my ears: 'We’re coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don’t be babies and start counting the pages.' I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.
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Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
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Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.
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We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.
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Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
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Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.
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When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them, and a lot of them were on record talking about what a good colleague I am and how I like to get things done.
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People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
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SECRETS ARE LIESSHARING IS CARINGPRIVACY IS THEFT
