Jacob Weisberg Quotes

Though there are some debatable exceptions, sanctions rarely play a significant role in dislodging or constraining the behavior of despicable regimes.

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• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • God
  • Live
  • Alone

• China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Economic
  • China

• I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Say
  • Sushi

• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Political
  • Democracy

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Pride

• In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Different
  • Important
  • Day

• Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Hobby

• Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Physical

• Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

  

  Rajneesh
  • God
  • Man
  • Myself

• I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Fashion
  • Period
  • Animal

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
  • Advice

• I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Passionate

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Pride
  • Fact
  • Take

• Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Important
  • Me
  • Everyone

• I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

  

  Daniel Suarez

• Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Funny
  • Enjoy
  • Golf

• While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Gossip

• Growing up in New Jersey, everyone wanted to be a tough guy. That meant baggy pants that fell down, big T- shirts, and chains. I couldn't imagine wearing tight jeans, as I thought it was dorky. Now I look at pictures of me then and think, 'Yeah, you looked dorky.'

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.

  

  Colin Firth
  • People
  • Black
  • Batman

• Though there are some debatable exceptions, sanctions rarely play a significant role in dislodging or constraining the behavior of despicable regimes.

  

  Jacob Weisberg