Jonah Goldberg Quotes

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

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• The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Always
  • Capacity
  • Curious

• I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • School
  • Bad
  • Never

• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive in that many runs.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Right Time

• I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Work
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• The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Person
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• Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • You
  • Person
  • Something

• I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.

  

  Barbara Olson
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• The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • American
  • Community
  • Best

• I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Together
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• Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
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• In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Time
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• When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
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• I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Book
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• A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Country
  • Done
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• Music has the ability to comfort people.

  

  Matthew Morrison
  • People
  • Music

• I like the dirty venues better - Brixton Jams is like home.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Venues
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• Through sites like MySpace, people coalesce into interest groups, and this gives me the opportunity to do vast mailshots to people who like similar things.

  

  Martin Millar
  • People
  • Opportunity

• The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting. For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger, and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours; they offer you their blood, their goods, their life, and their children, as I have before said, when the necessity is remote; but when it approaches, they revolt.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Loved
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• Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

  

  Jonah Goldberg