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 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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.
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If you've got a camera that's two feet away from you, you have to bring it all back down. It's a lot more insular. It's different brush strokes. Whereas on stage, you're playing to people who, depending on the size of the theater, might be 40 meters away from you.
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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
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It's tough to reenter the work force.
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Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
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I don't like people who don't have opinions.
