David Sedaris Quotes
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I'm excited to join the StyleHaul community and bring new content to my fans.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.
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Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.
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And when like her, oh, Saki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in your joyous errand reach the spot Where I made One - turn down an empty Glass!
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I want to prove that the system is not working. . . . . You can’t simply say that the system is not working. You have to work through it
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.
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No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
