Adam Gopnik Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Giving Quotes

Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share. You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.

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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

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When somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have social tools, and you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.

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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

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When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

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If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information.

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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

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Giving calls for genius.

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

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Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

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That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

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