David Remnick Quotes
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I have a very small public.
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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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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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Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better.
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I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you do not know how you lost something, how can you protect it?'
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Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
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You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.
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I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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All our songs are about real people, true events. We do write about DC Comics and things like The Replacements. It's pretty much good conversations that happen at Art Brut shows. It's like making friends - like a Wanted ad: "Man that likes the Replacements and DC Comics wants friends to drink with at venue tonight. Who's coming?" It's like that.
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I'm a civilian, a citizen.
