Dave Itzkoff Quotes
It is a fundamental impossibility to have a magazine that is anarchic and yet formulaic. Those can't coincide.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.
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We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
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I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
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I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
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I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
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When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.
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When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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We also know that our support for civil society is not just about what we’re against, but also what we’re for. Because we’ve noticed that governments that are more responsive and effective are typically governments where the people are free to assemble, and speak their minds, and petition their leaders, and hold us accountable.
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All problems are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be.
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I said to myself every day: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
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Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
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When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
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It is a fundamental impossibility to have a magazine that is anarchic and yet formulaic. Those can't coincide.
