Jacob Weisberg Quotes

Within half an hour of posting a piece on 'Slate,' I get a direct, often hostile and personal, response from readers.

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• I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Will

• If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Long
  • Desire
  • Deep

• A hard man is good to find.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Find

• I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Hate
  • Term
  • Philanthropist

• I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Small
  • Born
  • California

• Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Play
  • Place

• I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Up
  • Work
  • Character

• Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Live
  • She

• Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Light

• If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Today

• All knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge

• Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Opinion
  • Path

• My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Dad
  • Lawyer
  • Uncle

• I'm bonkers about juicing. I got into it when I lived in L.A. - I'd juice three times a day.

  

  Poppy Delevingne

• God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • God
  • Feeling

• I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Remember
  • Leadership
  • Caring

• How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • People
  • Immigration

• I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Songs
  • Wheel
  • Reinvent

• Within half an hour of posting a piece on 'Slate,' I get a direct, often hostile and personal, response from readers.

  

  Jacob Weisberg