David Foster Wallace Quotes
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
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I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
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During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
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I still love playing the game, and it's amazing we can do this as a so-called 'job,' and it's amazing we can come to the rink every day and play the game we love.
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Fiction Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface.
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The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
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I'm going to a dance." With Becky?" No, with Alexander." Who's Alexander?" The love of my life!
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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
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I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson - who I have nothing against - but I don't want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like, 'Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.'
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They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.
