David Plotz Quotes
Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.
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A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.
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When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.
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Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest.
