David Remnick Quotes
98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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I enjoy money.
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Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.
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98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
