Dave Eggers Quotes

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

Dave Eggers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SchoolVoiceStoryJournalismBack

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

Jena Malone

UpWorkingLikeNoonWaking Up

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Robert Owen

ManCircumstancesCreature

My father was my hero. I can't say enough about him and everything he did for me and my family.

Jean Smart

FamilyFatherHeroMeEnoughSay

I'm a flower gardener.

Sissy Spacek

FlowerGardener

Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.

Rodney Atkins

FunnyHomeMeNameNowRight

If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

Rory Freedman

ChangeTimePeopleMeatEggsJust

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

Miguel Syjuco

HistoryExperiencePowerfulFirst

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

Mitt Romney

BusinessOpportunityChildrenNever

I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.

Josh Brolin

SchoolHotTennisKidAwkwardOff

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

GreatPeopleThinkGeniusNowKind

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

Don Yaeger

FocusStriveExtraordinaryOwnOur

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

Clay Matthews III

TogetherThinkMusiciansNiceKind

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