Jonah Goldberg Quotes
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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They call me Fearless Felix.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.