John Podhoretz Quotes
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
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For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.
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Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.
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There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.
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Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
