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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
David Foster Wallace
Good
You
Minimalist
Write
Bleeding
Like
Piece
Looks
Without
Much
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace
Oppression
Pride
Black
Poverty
Hideous
Rap
Response
Some
Blacks
Parody
Like
Sixties
Conscious
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
David Foster Wallace
Cause
Fire
Pain
Addressing
Would
Would-Be
Like
Without
Still
Off
Cultures
Getting
Going
While
Rid
Deeper
Alarm
Shutting
TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
David Foster Wallace
You
Sole
TV
Stay
Seeing
About
Like
Liked
Because
Real
Tuned
Agenda
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
David Foster Wallace
Art
You
Creative
Become
Admire
Instead
Like
Reader
Exercise
Get
Trying
I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
David Foster Wallace
Art
Good
People
Depend
Think
TV
Vehicle
Idea
Like
Makes
Just
Which
Them
Good Art
Brings
When I go to the movies, I like to see something different.
David Frankel
See
Something
Like
Go
Different
Movies
It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.
David Friedman
Sometimes
Feels
Like
Doing
Anything
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
David Friedman
Success
Music
Writing
Value
Music Industry
Would
About
Like
Industry
Becomes
Making
Impure
While
Realized
Large
Start
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
David Frum
Environmental
Government
Me
Rich
See
Spirit
Seemed
More
Economic
Environment
Environmental Issue
Attention
Like
Voters
Excuse
Issue
Issues
Years
Government Regulation
Which
Paying
Regulation
Less
Including
Societies
I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.
David Gallagher
Myself
Character
Challenge
Before
Like
Look
How
Roles
Done
Often
Anything
Them
Certainly
Based
Reject
I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.'
David Gallagher
Love
You
People
Awesome
Project
See
Guy
Never
He
Stuff
Like
Know
Him
Go
Hear
Surprises
Ultimately
Yes
Want
Gonna
Really
Actor
Eventually
Chameleon
Here
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
David Geffen
Life
Business
School
My Life
Guy
Through
Never
Like
Wizard
Wizard Of Oz
Lot
Behind
Just
Oz
Curtain
Business School
If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.
David Gerrold
Future
You
Science
Car
Jet
Say
Kid
Kind
Would
Be Different
Able
London
Something
Take
Pick
Driving
Idea
New
Like
Hours
Got
Were
Years
Up
Five
York
Going
New York
Different
Plane
Used
Popular
Actually
Four
Copy
It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.
David Gest
Thinking
Shark
Like
Know
Looks
Huge
Going
No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.
David Gest
Good
Good Things
Live
Only
No-One
Like
Person
Done
Should
Things
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.
David Gilmour
Music
Me
Guitar
Walk
Think
Otherwise
Give
Give Me
Could
Devices
Like
Couple
Sound
Off
Shop
Any
Just
Anywhere
Rack
Basic
Amp
If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
David Gilmour
Love
Music
Myself
People
Too
Other
Please
Would
Come
Like
Make
Concerts
Them
I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
David Gilmour
Love
Music
Myself
People
Too
Other
Please
Would
Come
Like
Make
Concerts
Owe
Anything
Frustrations
Them
Help
It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.
David Goggins
Great
You
Discipline
Values
Lose
Own
Military
Our
Weak
Running
Gym
Like
Go
Up
Get
Going
Stop
Wherever
Teaches
Keep
Muscle
The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.
David Gower
Good
You
Example
Way
Has-Been
Would
See
Tour
Developed
Like
Been
People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.
David Gower
Me
You
People
Every
Out
Tell
Rising
Delivery
Like
Looks
Talking
Ball
His
Hand
Grenade
Form
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.
David Graeber
You
Problem
Money
Will
Revolution
Entirely
Seems
Proposing
Naive
Particular
Like
Particular Problem
Know
Look
Answer
Always
How
Been
Exist
Question
Revolutionaries
After
Hard
Function
Utopian
Actually
Eliminate
Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.
David Grann
Twitter
Honestly
Enough
Okay
Though
Follow
Slowly
No Idea
Had
Idea
Like
Particularly
Witty
Just
Realize
Started
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
David Grann
War
Sports
Champion
Political
Hero
Daring
Born
Only
Inventor
He
Like
Idol
Tragedy
War Hero
Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.
David Grann
Funny
Me
People
Job
First
Become
Finally
Kicked
Eye
Kind
Struggled
Writer
Like
Hill
Because
Around
Got
Editor
Hired
Which
Newspaper
Disorder
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Many
Copy
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