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 guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
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All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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Content is supposed to be king. But in the world of electronic devices, Apple seems to be placing the crown on its own head, apparently believing that its iPad and iPhone are more important to customers than the books, movies, and music they store on them.
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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.
