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Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

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Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
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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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Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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The Jewish women like Bethany Mandel fare the worst, because they are getting both antisemitic stuff and anti-woman stuff.
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I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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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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I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.
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