Jacob Weisberg Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
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The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.
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I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
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The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.
