David Rakoff Quotes

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

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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I always played games with my friends, but as I got older, my friends stopped playing.

Jenova Chen

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Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.

Jeremy Corbyn

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Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Robert Orben

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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Jean Cocteau

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I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.

Joshua Ostrander

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joseph Joubert

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The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.

Christian de Duve

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I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker.

Cillian Murphy

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I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Chuck Feeney

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Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

Peter MacKay

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Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

Norman Jewison

YouWillRightEverything

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