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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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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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.
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The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.
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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
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'Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.'
