Jack Germond Quotes
For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.
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The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
