Gene Weingarten Quotes
The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
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'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
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I don't discriminate against straight or gay people in casting; I'm open to good acting.
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The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
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You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.
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Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.
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That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
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The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
