Jacob Weisberg Quotes

The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'

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• I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.

  

  Cam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Community

• An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Sentence

• I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Sure

• I feel like I go through an awkward phase almost every day.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Awkward

• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nature

• You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Women
  • Technology

• Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Everything
  • Because
  • Going

• The xx do not condone guns!

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Guns
  • Condone

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• 'Dancing with the Stars' was a really great experience. People were definitely surprised that I'm a fighter, or they couldn't believe I'm a professional fighter, but I feel like I'm going to get that for a while. I'm excited to bring a new demographic over to MMA and the UFC.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Pictures
  • Come
  • Blink

• When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Acting
  • Start
  • Strangers

• I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kind

• Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Trying
  • Rap

• Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Moral

• Good order is the foundation of all things.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Foundation
  • Brainy

• I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Know
  • Audience

• India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Help
  • Words

• One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Children
  • House
  • Winter

• Words can not express the joy of new life.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Words
  • Joy

• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  

  Edith Head
  • Business
  • Ideas
  • Years

• This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

  

  Josiah Warren
  • Money
  • Value
  • Corruption

• The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'

  

  Jacob Weisberg