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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The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.
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At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.
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[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
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All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.
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In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.
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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.
