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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I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.
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I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.
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It's good to make people laugh.
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It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.
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I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
