Dave Eggers Quotes

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There's always been something about Jeffrey Tambor, not only as an actor but as a person, where his ability to embody a sort of very dignified feminine way of being just - this was just very clear to me.

Jill Soloway

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Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.

Andy Dunn

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Johnny Cash

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It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

Ruth Bernhard

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I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.

Michel Gondry

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I've always known that there are conflicting issues going on where I'm from. It's always been that way.

Jason Isbell

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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Chinua Achebe

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There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.

Cotton Mather

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I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.

Corey Feldman

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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Brian Tracy

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My accent really comes out when I'm speaking in public or when I'm passionate about something.

Augustus Sol Invictus

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That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.

Alicia Vikander

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