Adam Gopnik Quotes
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.Adam Gopnik
Quotes to Explore
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
Adam Draper -
We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
Naomi Klein -
Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
Nancy Roman -
High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
Hailey Gates -
Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
Walter Cronkite -
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
Pam Bondi -
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Walter Cronkite -
My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
Irv Kupcinet -
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover -
When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.
Rachel Keller -
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
Barbara Cartland
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
Oprah Winfrey -
I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
Gary Lineker -
Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
Tamsin Egerton -
Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
Candice Olson -
I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
Saffron Aldridge -
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Karl Jaspers -
Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.
Jim Crace -
Whether it’s that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you’re not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh-they are all pathways to what I think God must be.
Jennifer Beals -
How do you measure your value?
Loretta Lynn -
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
Adam Gopnik