David Quotes
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.
The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.
If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.
To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.
Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.
It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.
When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective.
Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!
I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.
Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.
What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.
As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak.
People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.
