David Remnick Quotes
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.
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A man's head is his castle.
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Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.
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Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.
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Not all political prisoners are innocents.
