David Foster Wallace Quotes
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I'm easily entertained.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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We should all love animals.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what was important was to ensure that we were as diverse as possible across a lot of different intersections.
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Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
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'X Factor' was the best experience of my life to be part of a show watched by so many people.
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My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
