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Jacob Weisberg Quotes

Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Meet Right Pleasure Civic Fail Left

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

Humor Find Acting Boring Sort Any

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

Andrei Codrescu

Birthday Friend Party Lucky Kid Get

If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater.

Anand Giridharadas

Great Think America Remember You

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

New York Holidays Paris New London

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

Myself Tradition Cinema Things Happen

I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

Family Time Myself Job People Sorry

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

Man Street Who Knows He Beethoven

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Girl Great Style Me You Intention

Part of the reason Loewe has diversified into so many other categories is because what we can't do any more is simply say, 'Here's more stuff you can buy.'

Jonathan Anderson

You Say More Reason Buy Here

Eating bad food does not make you a bad person.

Food Eating You Bad Person Make

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Facts You Never Survey Out Check

A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.

Christopher Lloyd

Writing Enough Long You Bull Next

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