Jacob Weisberg Quotes
Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
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I feel the hot winds of karma driving me. Nevertheless I remain here. My training was correct: I must not shrink from the clear white light, for if I do, I will once more re-enter the cycle of birth and death, never knowing freedom, never obtaining release. The veil of maya will fall once more.
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The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.
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Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.
