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Gary Weiss Quotes

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

Gary Weiss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Imagination Rome Way Events Against

I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.

Jenny Slate

Life Curious Me Person Go Say

Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

Andre Aciman

Style Voice Way Hidden Secret Turn

The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Love Beach Childhood Me End Found

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

Jeff Kinney

School School Days Person Run Never

Sandalwood is one of the ingredients in Tam Dao, the perfume that I love from Diptyque.

Michael Buble

Love Perfume Ingredients I Love

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

Stephen Stills

Music Child College White Got Kids

Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.

Rita Rudner

Life Women Time Woman Think Thought

I have this weird thing where if I close my eyes, I feel like no one can see me.

Janet Varney

Eyes Me Weird Feel See Where

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

Don Imus

Unique I Can Want Position

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Djimon Hounsou

Eyes Africa Where Continent Opened

What people look for in their leaders is authenticity. You say, 'I'm not going to ask you to do anything that I'm not going to do myself.'

Denise Morrison

Myself People You Look Say Anything

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.

Christopher Buckley

Find Republican Attractive Very