John Podhoretz Quotes
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
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The precise laziness is akin to letting your eyes blur or glimpsing what's at the corners in peripheral vision. Or those moments when you think you see something but you're not sure you actually saw it in the end. The way I get to these places is just practice, like a kind of meditation that shapes my brain.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
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We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.
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Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
