David Foster Wallace Quotes

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

David Foster Wallace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1962 - December 12, 2008

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I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.

Jim Courier

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'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you're standing in the middle of a ring, and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

John Darnielle

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My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.

John Waters

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'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.

Sophie Aldred

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When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Steven Spielberg

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As a company, whatever the business outlook is, you want to make sure you have new skill sets coming into the company.

Steve Mollenkopf

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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Tom Stoppard

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I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.

Tom Waits

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Obviously wrestling is a core component of MMA. And among UFC fighters, my take-down defence is considered quite high.

Robert Whittaker

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Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more energy into the atmosphere, it sloshes around. Energy doesn't simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100-year floods here, 100-year forest fires there.

Michio Kaku

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I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

Josh McDaniels

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All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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