Jacob Weisberg Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
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The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take over the responsibility which governments have for prosperity and security of their people.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.
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The question 'Why do we use language?' seems hardly to require an answer. But, as is often the way with linguistic questions, our everyday familiarity with speech and writing can make it difficult to appreciate the complexity of the skills, we have learned. This is particularly so when we try to define the range of functions to which language can be put.
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Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The comparative planetology of our solar system makes it seem like those initial conditions are hard to come by.
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The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.
