Dan Trachtenberg Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
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It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.
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It's a hobby for me, but I'm never alone if there's a guitar there.
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Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.
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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
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I can't play horror games anymore, let alone in VR.
