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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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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Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.
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Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.
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I was nearly in the Fat Joe and Nelly video but I refused to wear a bikini. Nelly was cool though - apparently he's been a fan of ours for a long time.
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Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
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Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.
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Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
