Jacob Weisberg Quotes
Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.
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Well, I'm a Harley Babe.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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These times of woe afford no time to woo.
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If you know Hillary Clinton, you know this is a woman who has never shied away from a fight.
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At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.
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On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.
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I'm not angry. As an athlete ... you should be open to criticism, and you're allowed to be criticized, because not everybody has the same opinion, not everybody likes the same players. The rankings are quite volatile: Today you're 'great,' tomorrow you're 'not,' but then you're 'great' again. It makes for great stories. Now, I always look at the long term and by doing that, obviously, I can stay calm through the storm.
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Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political interests is acute.
