Jacob Weisberg Quotes
Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I hate celebrities.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.
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Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.
