Interview with Kyle Bass
“Everyone leaves me alone in the bathtub. My phone's definitely not going to be in there with me. It's a great place to just isolate and think.”
Interview with Amy Chua
“Believe it or not, I get a lot of people who just feel like outsiders, and that can include anybody.”
Interview with Michael Savage
“I remember all my dreams…every night is another CinemaScope adventure.”
Interview with Richard Dawkins
“But I do want to emphasize — if I said in an interview that I'm a cultural Anglican, a cultural Christian, it means absolutely nothing as far as religious belief is concerned.”
Interview with Rabbi Aharon Feldman
“Oylem Habe iz a gute zakh/Lernen Toyre iz a beser zakh/Varf avek yeder yokh/Lern Toyre nokh un nokh/Oylem Habe iz a gute zakh.”
Interview with Ted Seides
"There are lots of incredible people in the industry who aren’t often, if ever, on the public stage. They’re more my black swans than white whales."
Interview with Dave McCormick
“I'd rather drive for you than Lady Gaga."
And I said, "Really?"
“Lady Gaga can't lower my taxes.”
Interview with Rafe Statfeld Recanati
"That's like asking: if you're stupid, are you happier? Maybe, but I'm not stupid."
Interview with Mark Halperin
“A fingertip feel for understanding how to appeal to the electorate in the most winning way.“
Interview with John Ondrasik
“I was in my early 30s when 9/11 happened. That's an old guy with his first hit song. But I was still this new kid on the block who had just got used to hearing my song on the radio suddenly performing at MSG with all the living icons of the world.”
Interview with Samuel Issacharoff
“I like what I do. I like the classroom, I like the writing, I like the independence of it, and I like the advocacy role.”
Interview with Jonathan Haidt
“Once I began criticizing the ideas on the Left and the Democratic Party — for many years I was doing it to try to help them win — but once I started criticizing them around 2008, I was now doing my work in a minefield, and I have to be very careful what I say.”
Interview with Olga Namer
“Then when I did my first show, everyone was interested in my being raised Orthodox and my marriage and what happened. I didn't know it was a crazy story until I went on stage. It was the thing that made me unique from other standups, I guess.”
Interview with Jonathan Rosen
“It didn't do Michael a favor that I thought of him as being brilliant, and it didn't do a lot of people a favor that I thought in those terms, least of all myself. And at this point in my life, what's so moving is to reconnect with people who are just wonderful, who I didn't really know or notice enough to even share myself with when I was young. I had wonderful parents, but the unit of measurement was intelligence and originality and an ability to articulate the world as if that made you the master of it…but that, in fact, is not true.”
Interview with Yitz Applbaum
“But my wine and my whiskey and my cigars, which are the three things I like— I share, I drink, I trade. It’s around friendship, it's around community, it's around enjoyment.”
Interview with Mats Lederhausen
“I think the hardiness about Swedes compared to Americans is noticeable. Today, I went to do a doctor's visit and it was pouring raining outside. I didn't blink for a minute to walk there.”
Interview with Josh Szeps
“Dave Letterman was the person who inspired in me the love of the art of the jousting match, the wrestling ring, the parry and the dance of an adversarial but lighthearted comedic interview.”
Interview with Daniel Lurie
“San Francisco is not like any other city. We're coming all the way back, full stop. We are coming back and we're coming all the way back.”