Mark Leibovich Quotes
Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.
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White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
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Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
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For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption.
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I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.
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Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.
