Jacob Weisberg Quotes
People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson's multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I don't have many friends.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.
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The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
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Riches begin in the form of thought.
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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
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The title 'Dohchay' is very perfect for the film. It is used very well in the title track. If you see the film, you will understand it.
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People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson's multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7.
