Jacob Weisberg Quotes
Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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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.
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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.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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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.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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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.
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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.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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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.
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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.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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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.
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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.
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You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.
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We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.
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We had so many of our fans tell us how worthless they felt before they found out about us and watched our interviews and listened to our music.
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My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
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Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.
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Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.
