Bret Stephens Quotes
Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
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Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.
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Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
