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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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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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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Capitalism begins with giving.
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I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.
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I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.
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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
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I am transgender, so 'he' is not appropriate and 'she' is problematic. I haven't been one to wage war with society to force people to address me a certain way. I let people make that decision for themselves. I don't identify as a man, so 'he' is silly in a way. Being called 'she' as a trans person, trans in the sense that I'm trans, is to be honoured in an aspect of yourself.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
