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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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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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 like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
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But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.
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I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.
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To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
