David Koechner Quotes
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
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Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.
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No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
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Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
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I don't like people who don't have opinions.
