John Podhoretz Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.
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Check out your own emotions and intentions before offering, giving, or receiving help.
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The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
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Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
