David Rakoff Quotes
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people. . .
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I love to work. I love to have complexity.
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I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.
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I'm anti-religious. I don't like people telling me what to do.
