George Plimpton Quotes
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.
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When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.
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The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
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To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
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A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
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The goal is just to try to get better and better, and the only way that makes sense to do that is to work with the best people. Surround yourself with the best artists and learn from them, and try to sink your teeth into the best material possible.
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
