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David Rakoff Quotes

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Survival Feeling Escape Cancer

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.

Travel Phone Because Favorite Gadget

As far as me participating in 'WrestleMania 32', the Magic 8-Ball says, 'Ask again later.'

Me Magic Ask Far Again Says

I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful.

Curious Find Go Will Touch Anything

That was one thing that we learned, that the Klan was making an active recruitment pitch to the armed forces - not just in Colorado Springs, but in other parts of the country as well. With trained military personnel who share that ideology, you know you have a valuable soldier at your disposal.

You Country Know Colorado Active

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

Russell Simmons

Failure Think Others Afraid Than

The fact that I had attained stardom never affected me too much.

Mohammad Azharuddin

Me Too Much Never Fact Much Stardom

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Age Wife People Me Think Name

There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.

Great Problems Find Exploration New

When I was 17, my mum thought it would be a good idea to compete in a modeling television show. It was hard for me to book jobs in Australia at this time, being that my look was so different. Even though I didn't win, I was given a modeling contract with New York Models, so I flew to New York as soon as the show was finished.

Good Time New York Me Win Book

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

People Stupid Think Poor Clever

I try to teach people to make fewer mistakes. But in designing economic policies, we need to take full account of the fact that people are busy, they're absent minded, they're lazy, and that we should try to make things as easy for them as possible.

Mistakes People Busy Easy Possible

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

Richard Jefferies

Good Power Science Moment Man Evil

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