David Sedaris Quotes

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• If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Try
  • Create

• Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Gossip
  • Bears
  • Flavor

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Care

• You want your coach's blessing.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Want
  • You
  • Blessing

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Talk

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • You
  • Thought

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Look
  • Own

• When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Fight

• I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Man
  • Know

• Money without brains is always dangerous.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Money
  • Always
  • Brains

• To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Freedom
  • Brave
  • Beach

• If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Taken
  • Voice
  • See

• I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Done
  • Me
  • Like

• It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.

  

  Charles Williams
  • God
  • Men

• Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• When a skater gets older, they become more mature, and they can assume more responsibility for their skating, ... That's how I've evolved. I know what works and what doesn't, and Mr. Nicks is a great coach for me.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Responsibility
  • Mature
  • Skating

• To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

  

  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
  • Liberty
  • Capable
  • Breach

• I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

  

  David Chalmers
  • World
  • Character
  • Nature

• I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

  

  David Sedaris