David Plotz Quotes
So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.
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People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.
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I have a whole section of a filing cabinet in my office full of ideas. Some are ideas for books or articles I want to write. One is a romantic comedy; one's about my dad's life. I've also got ideas for books on moral relativism as well as democracy and human nature. There's also a really cool concept for a spy novel.
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Yeah, well, it did earlier - but as Bobby and I have played together, our thing as a unit has become so strong that they kind of had to get in where they fit in. And most people do.
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So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.
