David Weigel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if Iâ€™m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
There are different reasons to make movies.
Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

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