David Sedaris Quotes
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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The self really is an illusion-and realizing this is the basis of spiritual life.
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Teach him how to live,And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.
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I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.
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Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.
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As a former member of the IRA, I accept all the responsibilities that are due to me. But in terms of the individual circumstances, I don't comment on that.
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We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.
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I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.
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Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.
