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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'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'
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Good things, you can't rush into them.
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I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
