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Jack Germond Quotes

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

Jack Germond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1928 - August 14, 2013

Topics

God Religion Reach Belief Degree

People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on.

Maxwell

Life People Reality Doing Talking

I've got a huge, huge position in mortgage-backed securities. I started accumulating them in 2009, when the market was really down and things were really scary.

Jeff Greene

Down Scary Position Started Market

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.

Michael Ashcroft

Blue People Research Think Values

Our basic ideology coming into screenwriting was to write first and revise slowly, and things just came into place after that.

Stephen McFeely

Place Write First Coming Things Our

Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'

Steve Bannon

Sports Moment City Management Hill

If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.

Sofia Vergara

You Old Years Yes Breasts Asking

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

Michael Pollan

Family Democracy Learn Doing Go

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

Michael Schudson

Best Advertising More Own Than Many

It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Life Story Know Dying Dirt Up

There are no ugly ducklings.

Loretta Young

Ugly

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

Jason Reitman

Myself I Am Am Obsessive Flyer

Capitalism doesn't function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It's like pushing a giant monster under water that's gasping for air. It goes nuts.

Douglas Tompkins

Water Capitalism Right Air Nuts See