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 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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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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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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I'm bonkers about juicing. I got into it when I lived in L.A. - I'd juice three times a day.
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I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.
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The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.
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Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.
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I think people were looking for something new in the EDM scene and found it in my music.
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At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.
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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.
