Dave Eggers Quotes
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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You're gifted to do something.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
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It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
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I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
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There are some people in life that you can't get over.
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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
