Jacob Weisberg Quotes

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• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Running

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Three

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Never
  • Hopeless
  • Bright

• I hate celebrities.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Celebrities

• 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.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • American
  • Small
  • Owe

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Long
  • Why
  • Remember

• Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Future
  • Wealth
  • Gift

• 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.'

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Stop
  • Band
  • Door

• I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

  

  Ina Garten
  • First
  • Lived
  • Barefoot

• You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Rock

• North Korea is looking more and more like a poor man's version of South Korea.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers

• It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

  

  George Matthew Adams
  • Good
  • Great
  • Imagination

• I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Great
  • American
  • Start

• In 2006, I became the fist American to be allowed to go visit their astronaut center in China in Beijing. I think that it makes sense for the U.S. to work with China in the future and I hope to see, if the political atmosphere between the United States and China allow for us to do more cooperation together, especially in the area of human space flight. I think in the same way that it's help improve the relations between the U.S. and Russia; it would help to improve the relations between the U.S. and China.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Work
  • American
  • Together

• Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • American
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