David Weinberger Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.
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I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
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When you lose, nobody likes it and you start turning on each other.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
