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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
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If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
