Jonah Goldberg Quotes
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I used to be an awful asker. I was the 14-year-old who didn't correct the family I would babysit for when they gave me less money than we had agreed to, because it felt rude and scary.
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The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
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The minute that a celebrity wears your clothing, that gives you international exposure and the best advertising you can get.
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It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.
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If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
