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We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.
Jon Lovett
Lie
Research
Enough
Imitation
Corporate
True
Drowning
True Enough
Partisan
Human
Just
Rhetoric
Social
Connection
Media
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.
Jon Lovett
Time
You
Intelligence
Mind
Ability
Potential
Retain
Ideas
First-Rate
Still
Test
Opposed
Inexperience
Same
Confident
Same Time
Hold
Your
Function
Aware
Two
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.
Jon Lovett
Strange
People
Dangerous
Sometimes
Old
Important
Thinking
Considered
Out
Some
Point
Protect
Dumb
Offensive
Trying
Stale
Us
Really
Should
Need
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.
Jon Lovett
People
Space
Hurts
Animals
Politicians
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Only
Shame
Through
Like
Concept
Occasionally
Sort
Left
Susceptible
Done
Human
Human Beings
Them
Beings
Whom
Away
Last
Basically
I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.
Jon Lovett
Long
Could
Continue
Being
Wanted
'1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true.
Jon Lovett
You
Be True
Penn
True
Hit
Want
Anything
Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents' dinner, which was a reminder of this other kind of writing that I loved to do.
Jon Lovett
Work
Time
Writing
Dinner
Year
White
White House
Every
Other
Kind
Would
My Time
Reminder
Most
House
Wrote
Very
Loved
Which
Speeches
Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.
Josh Schwartz
Relationship
World
Parents
Own
Similar
My Own
Point
Point Of View
California
His
Very
Southern
Southern California
Experiences
Much
View
Certainly
Based
University
Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.
Josh Schwartz
Reality
Fatigue
Bit
Got
Happening
Little
Little Bit
Reality Show
Show
Certainly
I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.
Josh Schwartz
Looking
Everything
Kind
Outside
Takes
Look
Am
Person
Then
It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
Josh Schwartz
Experience
People
Fluidity
Sexuality
More
Accepted
Younger
Younger People
It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.
Josh Schwartz
Music
Day
Age
Become
Avenue
Think
Consolidated
Out
Day And Age
New
New Music
Get
Viable
Getting
Being
Legitimate
Really
Hard
Radio
Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.
Josh Schwartz
You
About
Wing
Like
Until
Said
West
West Wing
Show
Washington
Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.
Josh Schwartz
Hurry
Three-Year
Plan
The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
Josh Schwartz
Age
School
Long
Characters
TV
High
High School
Them
Need
Vague
The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.
Josh Schwartz
School
Girl
High
High School
Seinfeld
Who
Watched
Watching
We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.
Josh Schwartz
Time
Young
Drama
Bit
Some
Could
Adult
New
Along
Come
Also
Well
Sort
Been
Quite
Just
Young Adult
Quite Some Time
Where
Happened
Little
Little Bit
Appeal
Found
Niche
Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.
Judy Smith
Truth
Eyes
Become
Allegations
Facts
True
Whether
Public
I definitely never had an affair with the president.
Judy Smith
President
Definitely
Never
Had
Affair
When times are good, a CEO should remain poised and composed. When times are difficult, a CEO should remain poised and composed.
Judy Smith
Good
Difficult
Composed
Remain
Poised
Times
CEO
Should
While it may be tempting to bask fully in the glory of success, remember: When a CEO takes too much credit for the good, they will receive far too much criticism for the bad.
Judy Smith
Success
Good
Remember
Too Much
Will
Criticism
Too
Bad
Tempting
Remember When
Takes
Glory
May
While
CEO
Far
Much
Fully
Credit
Receive
Unless you work in HR, it's not your responsibility to necessarily police and monitor workplace conversation.
Judy Smith
Work
You
Conversation
Police
Responsibility
Unless
Your
Workplace
Monitor
Necessarily
Workplace romances - or even the illusion of a workplace romance - can carry many ramifications and consequences.
Judy Smith
Illusion
Consequences
Ramifications
Carry
Romance
Romances
Many
Workplace
Even
So many people apologize because they feel like they have to - that it's the appropriate thing to do, that it may help them down the road. But people can tell whether you're sincere.
Judy Smith
You
People
Down
Appropriate
Tell
Road
Feel
Sincere
Like
Because
May
So Many People
Whether
Them
Apologize
Help
Down The Road
Many
Thing
It's good to have a healthy ego because that pushes you to succeed. But when you cross a line, and your views are not balanced, that's when you get into trouble.
Judy Smith
Good
You
Ego
Trouble
Healthy
Cross
Pushes
Balanced
Because
Line
Get
Succeed
Your
Views
I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.
Judy Smith
Time
Best
Good
People
Believe
Our
Like
How
Occurs
Up
From Time To Time
Going
Just
Screw
Happens
Really
Growth
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