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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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'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
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I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
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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.
