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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On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
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Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
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There is nothing erratic about my nature. It’s just that the way you would react, I would react the same way. It’s just that people in limelight, under the media spotlight, would not react that way. They would go back home and plan their reaction. That would be a more dangerous reaction. With me, it’s just there, and I forgive and forget very easily.
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In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think' the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.
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I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
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Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.
