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Somebody Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something…
- There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen…
- Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
- I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.
- We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody…
- Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you…
- Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and…
- I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's…
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. — Richard Bach
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. — Ansel Adams
- Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no,… — Christian Bale
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- I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's… — Christian Bale
- There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was… — Christian Bale
- I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well… — Alan Ball
- If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them… — Douglas Adams