David Sedaris Quotes
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
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We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who's on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in our country. If you're too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun. So there are things we can do, and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.
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Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
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Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas.
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The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.
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I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.
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But most good movies have a gun in them.
