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.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • People
  • Real
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • America
  • War

• But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Tired
  • Young
  • Judgment

• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Philosophy

• I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Worst

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfortable

• Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • War
  • Stop

• Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Same
  • Talk

• 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.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Together

• Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Children

• It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Country
  • Mistake

• Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Time
  • Serious

• There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Nature
  • Free

• It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Family
  • Dirty

• The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.

  

  Pontus Hulten
  • Life
  • Time
  • Success

• The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Good
  • Door

• The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• I can't bring out something I've already worn. I want to make sure I don't look down. I want people to say, 'Man, he looks good'.

  

  Craig Sager
  • People
  • Good

• There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Spirit
  • Perfection

• If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

  

  Daniel Okrent