David Rakoff Quotes

Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.

David Rakoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 27, 1964 - August 9, 2012

Topics

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Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

Jim Gerlach

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I like tight bodies and pretty faces. You bring in Methuselah, if she's got a tight body and a pretty face, that's all right, too.

Jim Brown

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They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

John Boehner

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I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

Mavis Staples

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I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.

Angela Merkel

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Just like you have fire regulations, they should have regulations that no building would be made without charging points for electric vehicles.

Anand Mahindra

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You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker.

Steven Soderbergh

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We are revolutionaries.

Stokely Carmichael

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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Sigmund Freud

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Tackling childhood obesity is key.

Diane Abbott

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I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Des Browne

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So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

Princess Diana

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