Dave Eggers Quotes
'Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.'
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
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Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.
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'Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.'
