David Sedaris Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.
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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
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I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.
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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
