Dave Eggers Quotes

But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1970

Topics

LittleSomethingGoingDifferent

Music is my life. It is sacred.

Jimmy Chamberlin

LifeMusicMy LifeSacred

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

Jessica Jackley

MoneyPeopleLookingMotivationWay

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

Meg Rosoff

ExperienceDestinyDeepKnowAlways

When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.

Andy Grove

ChangeBusinessOrderOffThanSome

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

America Ferrera

PassionI AmTryingGuidedAm

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

Sigmar Gabriel

ChangeAngerIgnoreInjusticeDesire

I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.

Mitt Romney

ThinkRunPresidencyCandidateAbout

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Louise Bourgeois

ChildhoodMysteryDramaLostNever

It's important for market participants to have a sense of how we think about the economy and the appropriate path of policy, to look at incoming data, and to form their own judgments as to whether or not changes in policy would be appropriate.

Janet Yellen

PathThinkDataLookImportantOwn

What can we expect from this latest crop of indie directors who have been sucked into the franchise factory? I'm especially curious about 'Star Wars,' which will feature an all-indie crew after J. J. Abrams finishes with 'Episode VII.'

Annalee Newitz

CuriousWillExpectStarCrewBeen

I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

Alison Jackson

WalkRideChildhoodMePictureBack

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

Woodrow Wilson

GoCircusUpFarColleges

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