Jacob Weisberg Quotes
I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.
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From an unknown land and through distant skies came a winged warrior. Nothing remained sacred, no one is safe from the Hellion as it uttered it's battle cry... Screaming for vengeance.
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Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
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We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. And we must make sure that the life of the great trading nations of the world cannot in the future be strangled at any moment by some interruption to the free passage of the Canal.
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Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.
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If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.
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If you're public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you're nervous about a date and thinking, 'I'm gonna be a dork,' picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.
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Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.
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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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I don't judge my characters.
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Science is practical philosophy.
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If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.
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I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.
