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.
Bat for Lashes -
Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama -
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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley -
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
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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.
J. B. Smoove -
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.
Walter O'Brien -
I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
Bebe Rexha -
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.
Young Jeezy -
I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
Teddy Sears -
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
Salman Rushdie
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Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
C. S. Lewis -
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)
Warren Farrell -
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?
Mark Knopfler Dire Straits -
No, I don't think they're obsessive, they're just dedicated.
Alyson Hannigan -
A lot of sexism is just very silly... and the best response is laughter and ridicule.
Mary Beard -
With money, who needs friends?
Frank Gorshin
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It's all about impressing people.
Christine Taylor -
I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
Michael Caine -
Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!
Peter Ueberroth -
And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn’t the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore.
Orson Scott Card -
Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.
Cheyenne Jackson -
I sometimes read books on my iPad.
David Sedaris