David Sedaris Quotes
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.
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The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'
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I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.
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The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
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I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
