Quotes by David Plotz

David Plotz

And my wife is – you know my wife, Hanna Rosin – it’s hard, there’s no doubt. We have three kids, and it’s a pain. I’m away a lot and it’s hard on her, but she’s been very generous about it and my kids have been very good about it, too. It also allows me when I’m Washington to be more intent with them.

Kids

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Wife

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.

America

Civilization

Taken

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

Culture

Political

Running

God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes – Jacob or Moses or David – were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.

Challenges

Hero

People

Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.

Different

Helping

People

Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me – but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.

Sleep

Son

Up Early

I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. […] As a matter of pure education, it’s shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

Book

School

Thinking

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

Loser

Thinking

Winner

I feel like there’s lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is – more people want it than can do it.

People

Space

Want

I have blocks of time where I’m working intently on something.

Block

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Block

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Boring

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Brooklyn

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Character

Christian

Circles

Civilization

Columns

Culture

Demand

Different

Digital

Doe

Economics

Evangelists

Father

Finance

Gay

Grateful

Half

Helping

Hero

Huge

Ideas

Important

Jam

Jesus

Jobs

Just Being

Kids

Kind

Knows

Law

Literature

Loser

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May

Mean

Media

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Quotes by David Plotz

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.

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes – Jacob or Moses or David – were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.

Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.

I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. […] As a matter of pure education, it’s shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

I feel like there’s lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is – more people want it than can do it.

I have blocks of time where I’m working intently on something.

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