David Remnick Quotes
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.David Remnick
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
Nancy Reagan -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
Taylor Sheridan -
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
Florenz Ziegfeld -
Well, I'm an independent person.
Victoria Justice -
If you don't vote, you don't count.
Nancy Pelosi -
I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.
Nate Parker -
American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
Carice van Houten -
When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
Yves Behar
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
Jack Nicklaus -
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
Edmund Husserl -
If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
Bear Bryant -
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
Gary Zukav
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Working with some outside consultants or people that really can bring you an external perspective or a benchmarking to identify opportunities is a really good way to work.
Denise Morrison -
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
Jess Walter -
My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.
Elif Batuman -
For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
T. Harv Eker -
And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.
Neale Donald Walsch -
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
David Remnick