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

• 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.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• 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 eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Potato

• 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

• Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • People
  • Artist
  • Revolution

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • Play
  • Gigs

• When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • People
  • House
  • Political

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

  

  Jacob Weisberg