David Foster Wallace Quotes
That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.
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Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.
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I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.
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I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?
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We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
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That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
