David Brock Quotes
When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.
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I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
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"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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I wanted to work with Michael Mayer because I'd seen 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' six times.
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When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.
