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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I personally have not spoken to Marvel and have no plans to do a movie in the immediate future because, number one, I'm tied up with 'Somnia,' which is a fantastic place to be. It's exactly where I wanted to be.
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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.
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'Are you that afraid to die?''No. I simply like to live.'
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I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, I'm determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility - to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But that's very hard to achieve.
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We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.
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Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.
