David Sedaris Quotes
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
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The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks from Stalin to Mr. Bean, creating chaos out of order, rather than order out of chaos.
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I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.
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This is my question, for life: have we retired the phrase, 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me'? Is it legal for me to say, 'I endorse hate speech, I don't give a fuck'? I want hate speech. Why can't I hate you...in speech?
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What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?
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I would have the musicians keep playing over and over again till the sound made sense. I worked overtime on that; I worked hours to get it right. If the sound didn't make any sense, then I wouldn't know what to do - I'd be lost! It's instinct that tells me. I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.
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Did you read Holly Near's book? Let me save you the trouble. This is the most exciting sentence in the book: ...'I feel like a lesbian when I'm making love to a woman.' Gooooooooood, Holly! Well, the major difference between me and Holly Near is that I feel like a lesbian when I am BREATHING!
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The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.
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Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.
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I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.
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I want my work at Google to have a long-term impact on the tech scene in Africa and to result in millions more Africans not just going online but having an amazing experience once they do. That's what drives me every single day when I get to work.
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The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
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I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help free a lot of people that ain't free.
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I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.
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You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.
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Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I don't have email.
