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David Rakoff Quotes

Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Never Well Course Adam And Eve Adam

It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.

Work Best Job Intelligence Curiosity

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

Beautiful People Problems Manners

There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

Matthew Desmond

Children Day Mom Cold Never Forget

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Community War World May Against

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

Dance School High School Promotion

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

Fools Begin Who Like Made Simply

I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn't.

Said Lying Try Compete Aspirations

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Energy You Useless Dressing Up Like

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

People Want Themselves Following Jon

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

House White Wonderful White House

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

Mom Research Looking Reading Doing

I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.

Teacher People Me Think You Down

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