David Rakoff Quotes

I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
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• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
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• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
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• When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
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• I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Life
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• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
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• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
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• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
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• Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Money
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• Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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  • Attack
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• When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
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• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
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  • Important
  • Country

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

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• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

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• The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
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  • Education

• Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
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• Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Heaven

• If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • World
  • Would Be
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• All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

  

  Judith Butler
  • World
  • Right
  • Virtue

• I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

  

  David Rakoff
  • World
  • Honesty