I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
GENE WEINGARTENReporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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On Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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I think politics is everything.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
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