Adam Gopnik Quotes

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

Adam Gopnik

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People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.

Jerry Della Femina

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There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

Andrew Yang

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I make an enormous amount of salads, but my salads are like meals. They're amazing. I like going down to the farmers' market and looking to see whatever you can find, because you can put anything in a salad.

Andie MacDowell

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When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smiling, and all the children are frowning.

Amy Grant

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I like very straight comedy.

Judge Reinhold

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Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.

Douglas Alexander

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You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

Chris Daughtry

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Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

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I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.

Allen Covert

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I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh!

Toby Stephens

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Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.

Richard Dawkins

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'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride. The book is about finding their way back to each other, growing as people, and inventing a life they can share.

Linda Lael Miller

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