Quote

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

Gene Weingarten

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
Columnist
Editor
Journalist
Newspaper Editor
Writer
New York City
New York
Became
Less
Religion
Funny
Found
Hart
Around
Sobriety
Much
Johnny
Time

More quotes by Gene Weingarten

Image
The Jewish women like Bethany Mandel fare the worst, because they are getting both antisemitic stuff and anti-woman stuff.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man who, when accused by Hillary Clinton of being a Putin puppet, actually responded: No puppet! No puppet! YOU'RE the puppet.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
Gene Weingarten
Image
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Most men I know adore women, and I am including gay men. I think studies on jury selection show that the biggest critics of women - people less likely to trust their character or judgment - are women.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.
Gene Weingarten
Image
The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.
Gene Weingarten
Image
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
Gene Weingarten
Image
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.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.
Gene Weingarten
Image
International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
Gene Weingarten
Image
Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.
Gene Weingarten
Image
I always thought there was some cleverness to the joke diet in which you could eat as much as you want and as often as you want, but everything must be consumed naked in front of a full-length mirror. That would deter me!
Gene Weingarten
Image
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.
Gene Weingarten