David Lichtenstein Quotes
I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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This is the new imperialism, and I am against the new imperialism. It is not our job to go throwing our forces around the world and saying 'This is an evil man and so on'.
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If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
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I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".
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I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.
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I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
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I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.
