David Rakoff Quotes
I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.
Quotes to Explore
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Being evil is easy.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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I wouldn’t change a thing except maybe more air play as I feel my music is sacred and the world needs it now.
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I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.
