David Foster Wallace Quotes
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
Harrison Ford -
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine -
When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
Candice Patton -
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
Jack Kevorkian -
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
Kate Williams -
If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
Patrick Dempsey
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
Ian Mckellen -
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
E. Stanley Jones -
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu -
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso -
I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
Gary Ross -
When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
F. Sionil Jose
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle -
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
Randi Weingarten -
I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
Larry Flynt -
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
Nathan Deal -
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump.
James R. Clapper -
Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
Jack Keane -
I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.
Carl Levin -
A man can never dream these kinds of thingsEspecially when she came and spread her wingsWhispered in my ear the things I'd likeThen she flew away into the night.
Liam Gallagher Oasis -
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'Rourke -
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
David Foster Wallace