David Remnick Quotes

I'm a civilian, a citizen.

David Remnick

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• I have a very small public.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Small
  • Public
  • Very

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Challenges
  • Test

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rock
  • Now
  • Ready

• There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Poverty
  • See

• I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Value
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Still

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Welfare

• I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Great
  • Education
  • Working

• Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Day

• There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Going
  • Outside

• We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Happy

• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Baseball
  • Ballet

• I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!

  

  Jennifer Fallon
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Reading

• We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Nature
  • Force
  • Policy

• We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Children
  • Parents

• I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

  

  Lloyd Waner
  • Learning
  • Study
  • Professional

• The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Together
  • Light
  • Alone

• I'm a civilian, a citizen.

  

  David Remnick