Quote by Michael Mandelbaum
In my experience, its not just that serious books get a hearing on

In my experience, its not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows. – Michael Mandelbaum

Other quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule. – Michael Mandelbaum

Category:
Politics
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Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Future
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Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and its all different. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Sports
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Other Quotes from
funny
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Never fight an inanimate object. – P. J. ORourke

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funny

Men dont care whats on TV. They only care what else is on TV. – Jerry Seinfeld

Category:
funny

Its funny what a few no-hitters do for a body. – Satchel Paige

Category:
funny

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. – Groucho Marx

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funny

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My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that. – Laurie Anderson

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car

Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we dont talk about it intelligently. – Bill James

Category:
Knowledge

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. – Harold MacMillan

Category:
Experience

A degree of lying – you know, white lies – seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. – Matthew Lesko

Category:
communication