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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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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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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Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
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There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
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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'm not saying I don't enjoy the days that I'm not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.
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Everyone I've ever fallen in love with, I just fell in love with! I didn't date them to try.
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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
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I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist.
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The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.
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I'm a civilian, a citizen.
