Daniel Okrent Quotes
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
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I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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Pleasant, the word that utters the Trinity; Also pleasant, extreme penance for sin. Pleasant, the summer of pleasantness; Communion with the Lord, in the day of judgment.
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I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
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Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was going to be so many obstacles, but being gay doesn't mean being weak.
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There's nothing weak about being subject to something.
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Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
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I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
