Jacob Weisberg Quotes

Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.

Jacob Weisberg

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• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kind
  • Living
  • Most

• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Truth
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Good
  • Team
  • Football

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • America
  • Knowledge

• I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Dog
  • Sick

• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Distance

• Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Think
  • Wealth
  • Watches

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Alone
  • Grateful

• Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Power
  • Society

• Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Catholic

• Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.

  

  James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
  • Silence
  • Lovers
  • Brothers

• Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

  

  Frederick Buechner
  • Experience

• Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Spirit
  • Christ
  • Vain

• I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

  

  Josie Maran
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Appreciate

• Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.

  

  Jacob Weisberg