Jacob Weisberg Quotes

It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.

Jacob Weisberg

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• Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • You
  • Spotlight

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Real
  • War
  • Political

• For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Live
  • Real
  • Heart

• God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Great
  • Like
  • Feel

• I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Image
  • Super

• The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Me

• I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Life
  • Important
  • Me

• I'm a perfectionist.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Perfectionist

• When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Family
  • Yourself
  • Successful

• The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Real
  • Society

• 3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Nature

• In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • World
  • Violence

• On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Great
  • History
  • Magic

• In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Work
  • Long
  • Art

• If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• I think it's fundamentally a good sign that more and more professional traders and market makers are providing liquidity to the whole ecosystem. It allows people to move much larger quantities of digital currency more quickly than they would if that were not the case.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • People
  • Good
  • Professional

• The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • She
  • Mother

• The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Long
  • Character

• I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.

  

  Lena Olin
  • Attention
  • Joy
  • Tree

• As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Malaria
  • Diarrhea
  • Pheumonia

• It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.

  

  Jacob Weisberg