David Sedaris Quotes
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I'm trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don't know if there's any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
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I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
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Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.There should be sunshine after rain.These things have always been the same.So why worry now?
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No, I don't think they're obsessive, they're just dedicated.
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At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
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In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory.
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But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.
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Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.
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I sometimes read books on my iPad.
