I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
GENE WEINGARTENI think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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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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We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends’ fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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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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Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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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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I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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