David Remnick Quotes
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I have a very small public.
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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.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
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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.
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I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
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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.
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Ballet is the fairies' baseball.
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I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all.
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We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.
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There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.
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I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do it, so I hit the ground stumbling.
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The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/
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Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature
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So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.
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I'm a civilian, a citizen.
