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David Foster Wallace Quotes

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

David Foster Wallace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Black Pride Poverty Oppression Rap

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

Child Doctor Parent You Know First

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

Medical Up System Incentive Tests

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

Business People Start Poverty Many

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Work Beginning Yourself Amazing Hard

Too often, real policy improvements get drowned out by political talking points.

Political Talking Real Policy Out

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

Michael Hansmeyer

Vision Architecture Building Reality

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Passion Men Baseball Go Canvas Nuts

I really desire a partner.

Partner Desire Really

I would like to do theatre because it scares me, and I think you should do things that scare you.

Rob James-Collier

Me Theatre Think You Things Because

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

People Me Stand Feel Doing Mad

Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe.

Life Live My Life Acting Breathe

I didn't know, at 22, that regret is useless. If I could go back and change something - give myself some big break, pass along some secret information, reassure myself that most things would, in fact, work out - I don't think I would.

Work Change Myself Regret Think Go

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