David Pogue Quotes
The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I am who I am.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Crises are harbingers of evolution.
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If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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I looked long and hard at third films in series to see if there were any good ones that I could learn from. And there weren't any that hadn't just gone off the train tracks by their third film. Until, that is, I got to the third 'Lord of the Rings' film.
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With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.
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The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.
