David Remnick Quotes
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?
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When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?
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One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. (11 September 1941)
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A land that rejects the truth, barricades itself against change and lacks the spirit of freedom is hopeless.
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America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.
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You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
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Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.
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I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I just have the stylist on set trim it for me. I don't dye my hair. When I was a teenager, I dyed my hair five colors at one time. It was all different shades of red going from more orange to more purple. I thought I looked so cool.
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The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
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We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
