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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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 great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.
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The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that.
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She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
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Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.
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Time is like a very good friend who you don't see very often.
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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
