David Sedaris Quotes

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

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• It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

  

  Young Buck
  • Me
  • Story
  • Honor

• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Internet
  • Awesome
  • Surgeon

• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Sell

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Camera

• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Development

• You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Kids
  • Me

• The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Book
  • Holy

• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Writing
  • Relax
  • Profession

• The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Age
  • Laziness
  • Adolescence

• Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

  

  Paul Gascoigne
  • Game
  • Contract
  • Instructions

• I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

  

  John Sherman Cooper
  • Work

• The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • Time
  • Space
  • Rest

• “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Truth
  • Question
  • Said

• Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

  

  David Sedaris
  • Truth