Adam Gopnik Quotes
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.
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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
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It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
