John Podhoretz Quotes
Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.
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When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
