Will Leitch Quotes
I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
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If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.
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We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.
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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
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Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it's much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.
