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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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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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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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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I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.
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We always hope we can make a movie that will beat America.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
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I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.
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We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.
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The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
