David Rakoff Quotes
I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
Quotes to Explore
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
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I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.
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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
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If I feel like I've done a great job during an interview with the president of the United States live in the Oval Office, it doesn't give me a tenth of the good feeling of going to the school play and making eye contact with my kids as they're onstage delivering their lines. Nothing compares with that moment of connection.
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I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
