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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Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.
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Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.
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We want to be a place where, and when there's no place else, you can turn us on and know that He's there, He cares, and He's going to do something about it.
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This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
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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.
