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
-
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
-
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
-
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.
-
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
-
I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
-
I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
-
I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
-
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
-
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
-
I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.
-
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
-
I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.
