David Pogue Quotes
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.
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I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'
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Everyone who works with me calls me 'Ma.' I'm the motherly type.
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My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.
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What you are speaks louder than what you say.
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My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
