Dave Eggers Quotes

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

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• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Me

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Win
  • Shopping
  • Election

• My main thing is music; it's what I do.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Main Thing

• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Future
  • Overpopulation

• Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • High
  • Always

• I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Age
  • Group
  • Belong

• I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • May

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Wonder

• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Ideas

• I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Never
  • Just
  • Been

• It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Character
  • Like
  • Old

• I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Child

• Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Live
  • Learn

• Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• If you are brown, black, Asian, or anything other than an English-speaking, highly-trained technician, the Republican Party doesn't want you here.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Black
  • Party
  • English

• I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

  

  William Hurt
  • Decision
  • Balance
  • Scene

• I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Hate

• I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Play
  • Stuff
  • Grandma

• To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

  

  Dave Eggers