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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I get work done in half the time if the family is still asleep. When my family wakes up, I've already had a productive morning and am ready to enjoy breakfast with them before I start conquering the rest of my day.
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And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy.
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In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.
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People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.
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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.
