David Rakoff Quotes

At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.

David Rakoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 27, 1964 - August 9, 2012

Topics

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I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

Jodie Foster

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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.

Jidenna

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Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Maynard James Keenan

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Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.

Robert Blair

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I write books that will make 10 or 12 hours disappear, and hopefully they'll resonate with you for a few days, where you'll remember the characters and the story. That suits me fine; I am happy with that.

Michael Robotham

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Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These two governments changed the rules governing labour bargaining, weakening trade unions, and they weakened anti-trust enforcement, allowing more monopolies to be created.

Joseph Stiglitz

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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

Jordan Peterson

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Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

Chris Hemsworth

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I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Colin Powell

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Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

Anthony Trollope

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I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

Pina Bausch

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