David Remnick Quotes - Page 2

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• We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

  David Remnick

  Jobs, Whining, Stop Whining

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

  David Remnick

  Optimism, Adults, Responsible

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

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  Journalism, Overrated, Subjects

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• You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

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  Jobs, Mexican, Losing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

  David Remnick

  Writing, Remember, Hard

  "Remnick: Why He Understands Obama, Uniquely" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

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• I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

  David Remnick

  Knows

  "The quiet American". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2006.

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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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  Writing, Cartoon, Mines

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• You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

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  Rights, Cities, Civil Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

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  Cold, Wet, Hard

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• I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

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  Years, Differences, Journalism

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• Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

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  Writing, Practice, Wish

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Russia and Putin". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• You are losing because of Jewish bankers.

  David Remnick

  Bankers, Losing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I actually have great hopes for the future.

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  Hope For The Future, Great Hope

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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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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  Running, Independent, Risk

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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• There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

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  Russia, Class, Mafia

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• The question for so many is the quality of work, the future of work under globalism and de-industrialization. A typical example is a person who had a good factory job making 80,000 dollars, with health insurance, who was able to send his kids possibly to college and then he or she suddenly loses that job because the factory closed down. And now that same person is bagging groceries at Walmart and making $35,000.

  David Remnick

  Jobs, Kids, College

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

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  Jobs, Day Jobs, Journalist

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• Not all political prisoners are innocents.

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  Political, Prisoner, Political Prisoners

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

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  Thinking, Different, Electorate

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• I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

  David Remnick

  Office, Desire, Retail

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

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  Russia, Als, Capone

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• What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait?

  David Remnick

  Long, Waiting, President

  David Remnick's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 11, 2014.

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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 bitterness.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Vanity

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• I don't want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were incredibly dominant. That time has passed.

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  New York, Wall, Three

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

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  Way, Internet, Effects

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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