David Foster Wallace Quotes
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
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[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
