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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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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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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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.
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America. Shoutout to the men in uniform that protect and serve this country. From sea to shining sea. From one white boy, to all nationalities, we've got to stand together, people.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
