David Zabel Quotes
Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.
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All we have is the past, but for people of the future, there's not even going to be a history there. The history of recorded music has turned into a flat fucking screen of an iTunes playlist. I'm preserving something that's going extinct! That's all rock'n'roll has been since day one. It's all necrophilia.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
