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.
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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.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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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.
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A hard man is good to find.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.
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All knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.
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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.
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We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.
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I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.
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So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.
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I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?
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We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.
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Within half an hour of posting a piece on 'Slate,' I get a direct, often hostile and personal, response from readers.
