Jonah Goldberg Quotes

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

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• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  

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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

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• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

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• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

  

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• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

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• My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

  

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• In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

  

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• Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

  

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• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

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• I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

  

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• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

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• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

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• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

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• Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

  

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• Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

  

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• 'Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth.'

  

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• When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

  

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• The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.

  

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• Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

  

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• Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
  • World
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