David Brooks Quotes
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I was, like, 22 years old. I had half a million dollars sitting in the bank. I had no expenses. Life was great.
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When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
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There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
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Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.
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My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.
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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
