David Foster Wallace Quotes
There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.
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I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.
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I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.
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There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free
