Gene Weingarten Quotes

Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.

Gene Weingarten

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I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

Jim Jarmusch

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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.

Joe Jamail

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I'm definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it's good to have a regular, average body type in the charts.

Meghan Trainor

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I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.

John Malkovich

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A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

Angus Young

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When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Jeffrey Archer

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I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

Michael Bisping

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When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

Tom Kite

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I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

Rose Schneiderman

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Don't get me started about the media double standard.

Molly Ivins

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Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

Mira Nair

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I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

Lisa Marie Presley

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