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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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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Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.'
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I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.
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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.
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Despite all the divisions and discord within our democracy, I see the grit and determination and common goodness of the American people every single day –- and that makes me more confident than ever about our country’s future.
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Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
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Nothing is more frightening than a monster that cares about his health, cause you know he'll be around for a while.
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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.
