David Rakoff Quotes
I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.David Rakoff
Quotes to Explore
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith -
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard -
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
Pamela Stephenson -
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
A. B. Yehoshua
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson -
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. King -
We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
Hal Boyle -
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
J. M. Coetzee -
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
Victoria Principal -
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Flo Rida -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan -
Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
Kate Hudson -
When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
Inbee Park -
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.
Haniel Long
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Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.
Kate Middleton -
There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
Vicente Fox -
Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for Fiorina, who he basically said, 'Who would vote for you? Look at her face.'
Maxine Waters -
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.
James Salter -
Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain.
John Dryden -
I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.
David Rakoff