John Podhoretz Quotes
Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
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There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'
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Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
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The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
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Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
