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Jacob Weisberg Quotes

To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic Darwinism.

Jacob Weisberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Selfishness Belief System Economic

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

Jo Brand

Great People Friends Say Vote Who

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

Jesse Eisenberg

Love People Reading Now Movies Hard

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'

Jed S. Rakoff

Me Thinking Judge Tradition Look

I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

Amanda Holden

Want Lucky Position Things Where

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

Amanda Peet

Camera Phone Use Imbecile

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

Amelie Nothomb

Me Writing Thought View Point Part

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Steven Wright

You Train Kid Guy Toy Store

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Tom Yawkey

Passion Men Baseball Go Canvas Nuts

It's hard to kind of marry your personal life with the theater. It always works so well for my life, and then I had kids, and the thought of missing putting them to bed is a tough one for me. You know, I'm there a lot for them.

Miriam Shor

Life Me Tough Thought My Life You

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.

Julia Child

Good Home Food Best Cooking World

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Deb Caletti

Time Finding Write Over Books How

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie.

Philipp Meyer

Small Texas Honey Milk Land Modern