Daniel Okrent Quotes
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
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I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.
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Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
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My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
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Egoism: measuring others by our likes and dislikes – not by their needs but by our preferences.
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We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.
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People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.
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To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.
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When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.
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Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
