Mark Leibovich Quotes

I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

Mark Leibovich

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• I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • Period

• I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Personality

• It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Important
  • Money
  • Clothes

• In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Home
  • Best
  • Start

• A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Purpose
  • Understand
  • Say

• My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
  • Always
  • Write

• I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Writer
  • Sure

• We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Learn
  • Rich
  • Cost

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• Fascism is very much a mob movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movement
  • Very
  • Fascism

• I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Care
  • Win
  • Gold

• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Partner

• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Years
  • Youth
  • Worship

• But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Time
  • Important
  • Justice

• Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Different
  • Play
  • Problem

• My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn't seem worth mentioning over dinner. They're all so successful themselves.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Friends

• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • God
  • Respect

• Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • School

• We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic.

  

  Fred Hampton
  • People
  • Support

• Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Work

• I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

  

  Mark Leibovich