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.David Rakoff
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Larry King -
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
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.
Eddie Murphy -
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.
Zac Brown Band
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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.
Walter Bagehot -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
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.
Maggie Stiefvater -
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.
Barack Obama -
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.
Zac Brown Band
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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.
Dana Torres -
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
Tadashi Yanai -
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.
Omari Hardwick -
I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
Francia Raisa -
The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.
David Remnick
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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
Haley Bennett -
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
Frances Perkins -
In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
Deborah Tannen -
Obviously the game was determined by Howard leaving so early. That took a lot of energy away from them and we played well as a group.
Phil Jackson -
I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.
David Rakoff