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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I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.
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Price is nothing when it comes to fashion. It's all about the style.
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Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked like. There are so many different portraits of him, and they're all different. But we have an image in our head, and that image is propagated from one place to another, from one person to another.
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You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the critical nature of oversights in financial markets and institutions.
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I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.
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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.
