David Remnick Quotes

Reform is not a period of retreat.

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• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Single
  • Artist

• And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Period
  • Look
  • Face

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Period

• I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Think
  • Period
  • Needs

• When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Boy

• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Women
  • Think
  • Society

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Period

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • American
  • Growth

• Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Practice

• It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Period
  • Wanted

• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • People
  • Society
  • Period

• The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Time
  • Science

• I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Power
  • Happy

• It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

  

  Van Jones
  • Power
  • House
  • Light

• Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • Water

• Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Men
  • Women
  • Education

• Reform is not a period of retreat.

  

  David Remnick
  • Period