Dan Savage Quotes

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

Dan Savage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1964

Topics

KidPriestWanted

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ManRidiculousIntelligentEverything

Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

John Ridley

LiveCulturePeopleBadComplaining

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

John Ridley

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To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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I didn't say Facebook could not enter China, but nor did I say that it could.

Lu Wei

SayChinaFacebookDidEnterNor

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

Demetri Martin

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If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

Chris Meledandri

CharacterEmpathyYouGoingCore

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.

Bob Newhart

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Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

Annette Funicello

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When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

Anthony Doerr

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There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.

Wylie Dufresne

CookingInformationWillWayNever

Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.

Sheila Heti

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