David Sedaris Quotes
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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Bald is the new black!
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.
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I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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Vampires are super sexy.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
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The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
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To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was 'system,' an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was 'industry,' indecision when right was 'caution,' and blind stubbornness when wrong, 'determination.'
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If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.
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The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.
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What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.
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I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.
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I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.
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You tend to regret the things you haven't done.
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Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.
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The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
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To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
