Quotes by Jon Lovett - Page 2

The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of our own speech, but also to respect that same power in the hands of people we despise.
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Despise
Amendment
Great Deal
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Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump possible. Big, cultural, political, economic forces opened the door to someone like Trump.
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Big Things
Little Things
Donald
Donald Trump
Economic Forces
Emails
Opened
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As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn't based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.
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Attraction
Novelty
Screenwriting
Skill
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I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut down, while the debt hit record levels, right? Every single thing Paul Ryan claimed to care about.
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Debt
Glad
Levels
Trump
Claimed
Donald
Donald Trump
Every Single Thing
Hit Record
Paul
Paul Ryan
Ryan
Shut
Single Thing
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There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because you've made them believe it's the right thing to do.' And a great speech can do that.
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Convincing
Right Thing
Definition
The Right Thing
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So often on CNN, there's a world-class journalist interviewing campaign rejects and ideologues and silly, craven people who do not care about informing people, that aren't there to help people understand what's going on in the news.
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Cnn
Ideologues
Informing
Rejects
Silly
World Class
Help People
Interviewing
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A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate it. That's why I think it's easier to hate a comedy. If a drama doesn't land, it's boring; if a joke doesn't land - you hate that.
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Comedy
Drama
Easier
Falls
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It was awesome how supportive the White House was. It meant a lot to me that when I left, the people that I worked with - Jon Favreau and David Axelrod and others - really understood that this was something that I felt I held had to do.
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Supportive
Understood
White House
Me People White
Awesome
David
Jon
Meant
Held
Worked
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Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk.
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Luxury
Engage
Political Speech
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It's a reasonable thing to tell somebody, 'I've watched 70 hours of 'Game of Thrones.'' That's a totally normal, boring thing to say about yourself. But if you were like, 'I just spent 100 hours playing 'Skyrim,'' people think you're a weirdo.
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Reasonable
Boring Thing
Game Of Thrones
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Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.
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Harm
Headquarters
Caused
Button
Instantly
Societal
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People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.
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Making Money
Rolls
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.
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Function
Inexperience
Confident
First-Rate
Hold
Opposed
Retain
Same Time
Test
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When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber, and he used to be black, but he made himself white, and he was nuts. That was Michael Jackson in full. Wacko Jacko.
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Bubbles
Chamber
Nuts
Oxygen
White
Named
Full
Michael
Himself
Jackson
Monkey
Wacko
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Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.
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Policy
Serving
Great Important People
Candidate
Great Process People
Important Part
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They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.
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Susceptible
Hurts
Everyone Else
Occasionally
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You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is wages and economic issues. It's issues around reproductive freedom and criminal justice reform and inequality.
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Climate
Criminal Justice
Democratic
Economic
Health Care
Inequality
Voters
Criminal
Politicians
Increasingly
Reproductive
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Nationalism is not that hard. It's not that hard to incite people against another, and it's also - and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.
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Governance
Middle Ground
Nationalism
Time Believe People
Incite
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We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.
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Dumb
Offensive
Protect
Stale
Strange
Considered
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Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.
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Compromise
Obamacare
Paint
Socialism
Extreme
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When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little sound bite to put on television or share on social media. Humor has this incredible power in how we communicate about politics now, in part because there's something natural in the way it's communicated.
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Communicate
Bite
Simple Way
Sound Bite
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Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.
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Big Ideas
Conveying
Delivering
Good Job
Lyrical
Persuading
Achieving
Good People Person
Good People End
Candidate
Good People Ideas
Regardless
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America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow.
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Positive
Conservative
Danger
Delusion
Hubris
Imperfect
Movement
Needs
Rational
Sorrow
Strong
Voice
Fix
Bulwark
Complex
Liberal
Meets
Practical
Says
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I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through, when I should have been more solicitous of the judgment of those around me. They're a reminder that it's not mutually exclusive to be confident and humble, to be skeptical and eager to learn.
Jon Lovett /
Cringe
Dumb
Embarrassing
Exclusive
Inexperience
Judgment
Moments
Said
Should
Skeptical
Little
Around
Been
Confident
Those
Call
Through
Conference
Eager
Learn
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Poked
Remembering
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