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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My drive is other people's success.
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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
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He was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.
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capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.
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One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
