Steven Weber Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.”
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“The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.”
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“The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.”
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“We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.”
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“A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Disservice Industry" by Steven Weber, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2012.
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“The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.”
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“My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.”
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“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”
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“We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.”
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“A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.”
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“Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.”
-- Steven WeberSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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