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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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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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.
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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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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.
