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Being Jewish is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

Gene Weingarten

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Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
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New York City
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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 verb Garland should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
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Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.
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I always love it when a small paper wins. When I was growing up in the Bronx, the editor of the Riverdale Press - a neighborhood rag - kept submitting his columns for a Pulitzer. We laughed and laughed at his ego. He finally won.
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When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.
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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.
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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 don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.
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Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
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