David Remnick Quotes

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

David Remnick

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It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Joe Biden

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I try to go to Marrakesh if there's a Bank Holiday weekend.

Matthew Williamson

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When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

Jeannette Walls

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I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place. But I kept on acting, and eventually, I just dropped out of school and continued acting.

Stellan Skarsgard

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If you look at Apple... They are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, and they go out and borrow money against their overseas bank accounts. This makes no sense.

Steve Mnuchin

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I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Ruth Rendell

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I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

Romesh Gunesekera

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If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Rush Limbaugh

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I used to stay up all night, roam around, drink, and carry on like everybody else. That all changed when I got older, started to exercise and play golf. I knew by the time the day was over I would not feel like exercising, so I made it a point to exercise early.

Johnny Mathis

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I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.

Chris Lowell

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When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

Willie Nelson

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The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

Placido Domingo

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