Dave Itzkoff Quotes
One of the first times I wrote about Robin Williams for 'The New York Times,' I interviewed him for a feature about 'World's Greatest Dad,' a dark comedy he starred in for his friend, the writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.
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One of the first times I wrote about Robin Williams for 'The New York Times,' I interviewed him for a feature about 'World's Greatest Dad,' a dark comedy he starred in for his friend, the writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.
