David Plotz

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

— David Plotz

I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure…

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I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work…

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One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact…

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That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about…

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My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very,…

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I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well,…

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I sound like an evangelist or something.

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You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you…

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I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

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I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of…

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“Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.”

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My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we…

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I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,…

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А weekly column is really tough.

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What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places,…

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You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in…

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On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to…

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It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in…

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I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the bible with my rabbi. But I also would have…

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The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters…

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The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask…

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I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.

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Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not…

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I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.

— David Plotz