David Ebershoff Quotes
Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.
Quotes to Explore
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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I'm on Twitter. I love Twitter because I'm kind of voyeuristic. I don't tweet, but I look at other people's.
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It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.
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Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.
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Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.
