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Top 30 David Plotz Quotes (2025 Update)

David Plotz Quote: “I’m going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.”

1. “I’m going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.”

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David Plotz Quote: “When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what’s marvelous about it.”

2. “When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what’s marvelous about it.”

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David Plotz Quote: “What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It’s an atlas, it’s literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.”

3. “What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It’s an atlas, it’s literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.”

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David Plotz Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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David Plotz Quote: “I’m so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It’s an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.”

5. “I’m so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It’s an amazing thing to do, and when I started they both said, you know, the problem with columns is they just exist forever.”

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David Plotz Quote: “So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated – like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.”

6. “So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated – like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay.”

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David Plotz Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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David Plotz Quote: “My mother – both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother’s an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.”

8. “My mother – both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother’s an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.”

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David Plotz Quote: “That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don’t know much about it and you don’t want to know.”

9. “That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don’t know much about it and you don’t want to know.”

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David Plotz Quote: “I want to have enough space to, I don’t know, think thoughts. I mean, I just – I don’t know that I’m capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that’s worth a column.”

10. “I want to have enough space to, I don’t know, think thoughts. I mean, I just – I don’t know that I’m capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that’s worth a column.”

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David Plotz Quote: “Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.”

11. “Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.”

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David Plotz Quote: “On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I’m an advisor on.”

12. “On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I’m an advisor on.”

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David Plotz Quote: “I sound like an evangelist or something.”

13. “I sound like an evangelist or something.”

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David Plotz Quote: “When you’re writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you’ve messed up.”

14. “When you’re writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you’ve messed up.”

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David Plotz Quote: “I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the Bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.”

15. “I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the Bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.”

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David Plotz Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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David Plotz Quote: “The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.”

17. “The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.”

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David Plotz Quote: “Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.”

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

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David Plotz Quote: “One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.”

19. “One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.”

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David Plotz Quote: “Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.”

20. “Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.”

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David Plotz Quote: “In the early 1980s, Graham worked hard to turn the Repository into a respectable business, rather than a ludicrous one: Graham’s wife didn’t like keeping the sperm at the Escondido estate. Not only had the house been picketed, but a Japanese trespasser had once made a run at the sperm, only to be nipped by a family dog.”

21. “In the early 1980s, Graham worked hard to turn the Repository into a respectable business, rather than a ludicrous one: Graham’s wife didn’t like keeping the sperm at the Escondido estate. Not only had the house been picketed, but a Japanese trespasser had once made a run at the sperm, only to be nipped by a family dog.”

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David Plotz Quote: “People found it unusual to leave a job where you’re the boss.”

22. “People found it unusual to leave a job where you’re the boss.”

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David Plotz Quote: “I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn’t had in the – you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.”

23. “I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn’t had in the – you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.”

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David Plotz Quote: “Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn’t prepared for the demands that that involved.”

24. “Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn’t prepared for the demands that that involved.”

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David Plotz Quote: “The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask – and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.”

25. “The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask – and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.”

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David Plotz Quote: “I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.”

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

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David Plotz Quote: “I’m very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I’m very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there’s much more demand than there is supply.”

27. “I’m very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I’m very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there’s much more demand than there is supply.”

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David Plotz Quote: “People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you’re raising $5 million or they’re going to invest in something where you’re raising $1 million, but if you’re trying to raise $2.5 million it’s kind of a weird amount.”

28. “People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you’re raising $5 million or they’re going to invest in something where you’re raising $1 million, but if you’re trying to raise $2.5 million it’s kind of a weird amount.”

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David Plotz Quote: “I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.”

29. “I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in using economics no matter where it leads you in political circles, you know, rather than worrying about being left-wing or right-wing or biased or this or that.”

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David Plotz Quote: “The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it’s perverse of me to ignore it.”

30. “The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it’s perverse of me to ignore it.”

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David Plotz Quote: “It’s much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.”

31. “It’s much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.”

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David Plotz Quote: “I have blocks of time where I’m working intently on something.”

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

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David Plotz Quote: “I made one choice, for example, which is I’m just going to confine work to working hours. I’m not going to work on the weekend. I’m not going to be working while I’m with my son in the morning and in the evening.”

33. “I made one choice, for example, which is I’m just going to confine work to working hours. I’m not going to work on the weekend. I’m not going to be working while I’m with my son in the morning and in the evening.”

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