"If the story is good enough, if it's……" — David Remnick
"If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement."
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34 Quotes by David Remnick
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What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle…
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Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population…
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The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and…
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Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
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I actually have great hopes for the future.
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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
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I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
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I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and…
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Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
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I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a…
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
— Irving Berlin
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