Dave Eggers Quotes
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment.
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.
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Hours wasted in traffic represent not only lost wages but enormous amounts of economic activity that might have happened. Congestion indirectly increases consumer prices, makes travel times unreliable for commuters and truckers, and precludes many people from accessing jobs in urban hubs.
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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
