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.
GENE WEINGARTENSo, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don’t think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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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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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.
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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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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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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 I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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