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Gary Weiss Quotes

When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

Gary Weiss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

America Circle Up Corporate Midst

I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.

John Gregory Dunne

People California Something Us Idea

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

John Oates

Birthday Cake Hair Clothes You Look

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

Robert Pattinson

People Me World Believe Gangster

If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

Andy Weir

You Everything Forgive Just About

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

Steve Earle

Heart Blue People College Me Think

The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

Fear Truth Children Training Doing

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Michael Shermer

Nature Thinking Spirit Outside Force

Problems arise when we go through life relying too much or too little on particular traits, which, in turn, can lead to a crisis.

Judy Smith

Life Problems Too Much Go Crisis

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

Joseph Hume

Alone Believe Energy Better Giving

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Antonin Artaud

Culture Yourself Price More Need

I try to take care of myself, and I lead a healthy lifestyle.

Alice Temperley

Myself Care Take Care Healthy Try

There's no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes; what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that.

Prince William

Good Mother Future Shoes Job Said