Jacob Weisberg Quotes

Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.

Jacob Weisberg

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Career
  • Growing

• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Success
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Real
  • Want
  • Yourself

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Understand
  • Curious

• The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Me
  • Sports
  • Air

• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • Like
  • Fishing

• I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Security

• As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Want
  • Control
  • Employees

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • Travel
  • My Life

• The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Victory
  • March
  • Jerusalem

• I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Sexy

• Friendships are discovered rather than made.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Made
  • Friendships
  • Rather

• It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Movies

• Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • You
  • Boredom
  • Limit

• I did not plan to make the Cube.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Plan
  • Cube

• He also noted, in explaining his methodology for the workshop, that when he had reflected and meditated on the pre-Hellenic myths until he 'became filled with a myth', the ways in which he thought about natural phenomena and even the entire universe were qualitatively different from the perceptions that woud have arisen if he had been immersed in, say, the patriarchal, industrialized, competitive, Victorian world that was Darwin's frame of reference. Swimme concluded that the myth's have a very deep biological basis and that by allowing ourselves to be filled with a myth, the universe itself is altered because our relationship to the universe is altered in a very real sense.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Universe
  • Myth
  • Filled

• Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.

  

  David Doubilet
  • Discovery
  • Voyages
  • Assignments

• Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.

  

  Jacob Weisberg