Janet Malcolm Quotes
Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.
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The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.
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As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.
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I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
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I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.
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A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like you can't get the black president to say something that's obvious about what's happening to black people in this country.
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I really don't feel the need to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because, at the end of the day, it's just somebody's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have a particular process, and they're welcome to do it however they want to do it.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.
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I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.
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The U.S.A. was outraged, and loudly said so to everyone, whether they would listen or not. But there wasn’t much America could do about it, having sacrificed our space program on the altars of economic necessity and eternal war.
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Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
