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 could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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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 know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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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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Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.
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I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
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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.
