David Sedaris Quotes
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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I was bullied at school.
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I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.
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It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
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I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.
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This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough.
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Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!
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We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.
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If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.
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Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
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I'm an appalling cook. I can just about create a glass of orange juice and a ham-and-cheese sandwich.
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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.
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Shit is the tofu of cursing.
