David Sedaris Quotes
I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.
David Sedaris
Quotes to Explore
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
Harold Washington
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
Famke Janssen
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
Tamora Pierce
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
Malcolm Gets
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
Zinedine Zidane
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
Nancy Meyers
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
Victoria Pendleton
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
Vic Morrow
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
J. Michael Straczynski
