David Foster Wallace Quotes
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I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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I love doing theater. That's where my home is.
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.
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I love purple because my name is Amethyst.
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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
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As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.
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I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.
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We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
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Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen -; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.
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I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
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He was surprised when I ignored him. He is wealthy and arrogant and used to being listened to even when what he says is nonsense-as it often is.
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Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures.
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My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.
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You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.
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Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.
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Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you.
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Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
