David Remnick Quotes
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
Quotes to Explore
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
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Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
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As far as police go, if officers are really that scared or timid on the streets, maybe they shouldn't be police officers. Their job is to protect and serve and they're supposed to be the bravest of the brave.
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I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
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I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all.
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I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.
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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.
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I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
