David Rakoff Quotes

I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.

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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Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.

Jim Harrison

LifeGreatFoodSexLustTheme

I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in.

Jeremy Corbyn

PoliticsPeopleInterestingBack

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

John Grant

GoodGreatPeopleMeThoughtFeel

The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.

Meghan Daum

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I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.

Andy Kindler

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Elections are about the future and not about the past.

Mike DeWine

FuturePastElectionsAbout

I go, and I lobby for seniors on the Hill in Washington, D.C., and I've fought to have the Older Americans Act reauthorized, so I believe that my voice has been used for a lot of good.

Michael Kelly

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None of us is quite as Christlike as we know we should be.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

KnowUsNoneQuiteShould

To step into reverence for your body, you must pardon yourself for all you have done and not done to care for it. You must bless what works and accept and embrace all you perceive to be wrong.

Debbie Ford

YourselfStepCareYouBodyWrong

I should hurt a lot more people than I do. I'd like to hurt someone on every play.

Brian Bosworth

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I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

Bob Saget

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I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

Bob Shacochis

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