David Liss Quotes

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

David Liss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1966

Topics

CultureI AmPeopleSayingMagic

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Andreas Schleicher

EducationMoneyQualityYouStudent

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.

Tom Petty

HopeBlessingPeopleThinkYouPlay

Television is not a gimmick.

Roger Ailes

SmartPeopleNewsGoPrettyWatch

I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help.

Russell Peters

RacismPeopleSmallBlindHelpYou

Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

PowerBestPoliticsDemocracyWin

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Joshua Chamberlain

PowerThoughtOurCauseHigher

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

Jason Reitman

TechnologyPeopleThinkSeeingText

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.

Jorma Taccone

ParentsGrowing UpNameTelevision

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Doug Collins

MindBasketballForwardTeachersTry

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

David Walliams

LifeConfidentBetterMy LifeEnjoy

We all understand that the Affordable Care Act is not working perfectly. In fact, any major piece of legislation like this has to be tweaked over time, has to be improved over time.

Brian Schatz

TimeCareUnderstandOverActLike

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill

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