Norman Podhoretz Quotes
The isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
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There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'
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Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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The isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America.
