David Foster Wallace Quotes

After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.

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• It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Pretty
  • Fashion
  • Proud

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • World
  • Rest
  • Language

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Relationship

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Time
  • History
  • Education

• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • You
  • Mistake

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• Everybody has a story... and a scream.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Story
  • Everybody
  • Scream

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Make
  • Navigate
  • Maze

• Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Strive
  • Favors

• In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Never

• Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • You
  • Marriage
  • Independence

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Support
  • Philosophy
  • Saying

• I play blues old-timey style.

  

  Pinetop Perkins
  • Style

• If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • World
  • Science
  • Culture

• A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • She

• My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Trying
  • School
  • Home

• I really enjoy encountering a celebrity who's like, 'Let's go; you'd better have your A-game on.' You sit down with Madonna, and she's like, 'You'd better have something for me. If you're not ready to dance, I'll eat you up.'

  

  Kevin Frazier
  • Up
  • She
  • Game

• After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.

  

  David Foster Wallace
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  • Fire