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 like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
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You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.
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When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
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It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.
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Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.
