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

• Political and economic insecurity inevitably translates into insecurity in people's everyday lives, from lack of access to welfare to the increasing lack of security in the workplace.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • People
  • Political
  • Everyday

• If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

  

  Plato
  • Army
  • Governors
  • Dishonour

• As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Family
  • Past
  • Look

• We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

  

  Peter Bart
  • Picture

• I'm a civilian, a citizen.

  

  David Remnick