It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
GENE WEINGARTENFrom the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Reporters 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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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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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 politics is everything.
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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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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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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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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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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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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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