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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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.
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In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.
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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.
