David Sedaris Quotes
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
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The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
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Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.
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I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
