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• The only people who don’t love apps are pundits who don’t understand that apps aren’t really in opposition to the open Internet. They’re just superior clients to open Internet services.

  John Gruber

  People, Clients, Internet

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• Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for president. And he's got a new slogan: 'Put the oval in the Oval Office.'

  Jay Leno

  Running, Giving, Office

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• The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

  Indro Montanelli

  Nice, Political, Answers

  "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

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• The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box.

  David Letterman

  Black, Juggernaut, Election

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• Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Needs, Pressure

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• Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

  Lewis Black

  Media, Becoming

  "Cashing in on political comedy" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Pundits are saying that President Obama is starting to lose support among his own party. To give you an idea of how bad it's gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter.

  Jay Leno

  Party, Ideas, Giving

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• Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record in Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Mean, Order

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• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  David Hackett Fischer

  Memories, Grief, Past

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• I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

  Bjorn Borg

  Character, Play, Political

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• Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Research, Television, Computer

  "Science and Democracy" by Lewis M. Branscomb and Andrew A. Rosenberg, The Scientist, www.the-scientist.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.

  Eric Alterman

  Past, College, Years

  Eric Alterman (2008). “Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals”, p.10, Penguin

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• I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Grateful, Moon

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

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• When I started criticizing Donald Trump when he got more popular on the right, one of the most things that I discovered was how many people were mad at me for not living down to their expectations. There are a lot of pundits on the right who think their job is to be a cheerleader for their team. That is not my job. My job is to tell the truth as I see it, and that is gotten a lot of people angry.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Jobs, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Boys, Age

  Televised BBC interview, 1968.

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• Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Born, Stamps, Where You Are

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• What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

  William Blum

  Religious, People, Hypocrisy

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• Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Team, Car, Climate

  "Rewriting the rulebook for 21st-century capitalism" by Jeffrey Sachs, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

  Armand Borel

  Issues, Needs, Enlightened

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• I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Play, Narcissistic, Conservative

  "Stephen Colbert Brings Showmanship — And Harmony — To His 'Late Show' Debut". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 9, 2015.

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• What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included - just don't consider the beating down of women to be of any consequence. Half the time they won't even acknowledge it, let alone take a stand against it, preferring instead to gaslight women and pretend it's all in their head. Are these the kinds of people we want making decisions for us? The ones who think mockery about women's genitals is bad when it targets no one in particular, but OK when it targets the Prime Minister?

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Thinking, Media

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• Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

  Jonathan Krohn

  People, Political, Influence

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• The military profession, especially in the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress. Professional officers are trained to think in terms of emergent threats, and this [climate change] is as big a threat as you are going to find. Never mind what the pundits are telling the public about the perils of climate change; what are the military strategists telling their governments? That will tell us a great deal about the probable shape of the future, although it may not tell us anything that we want to hear.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, Stress, Military

  "Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats". Book by Gwynne Dyer, 2008.

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• No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Book, Self

  "Fictional character: Robin Simon". "Celebrity", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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