"Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from……" — David Plotz
"Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest."
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34 Quotes by David Plotz
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Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who…
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So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still…
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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…
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And my wife is - you know my wife, Hanna Rosin - it's hard, there's no doubt. We have three…
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I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.
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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…
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The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know…
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I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that…
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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…
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People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you're raising $5 million or they're going…
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My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact…
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More Alien Quotes
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
— Russell Baker
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
— Aeschylus
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
— Orson Scott Card
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
— Julian Casablancas
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
— Pamela Anderson
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
— James Madison
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