Dave Rubin Professions : Journalist Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Dave Rubin You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate. Dave Rubin controlyoufatechoices Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me. Dave Rubin daymetimelife I think virtually everyone wants to do good and be good and be decent to each other and pursue something that is valuable to them and meaningful. Dave Rubin everyonesomethinggoodthink Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society. Dave Rubin bestfreedomsocietygovernment Do you know people on the Right who are tolerant of people who are for gay marriage and are pro-choice? I actually do, plenty of them. When there is a disagreement, I see way more people on the Right... more often willing to agree to disagree rather than to de-friend or to smear. Dave Rubin youmarriagegaypeople Everyone that we disagree with is a racist and a homophobe and Islamophobe and a bigot. It's just silly. It's lazy thinking, and I think it gets us nowhere. Dave Rubin everyonethinklazythinking My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson. Dave Rubin lessonpolicyteachpeople We voted for Obama on rhetoric of 'hope and change.' We voted for him because of some idea that he was beyond politics and certainly beyond partisanship. Dave Rubin beyondpoliticschangehope Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do. Dave Rubin listensomeoneyoucollege It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything. Dave Rubin liveyoufreedomwant The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance. Dave Rubin livetruemoretolerance Prohibiting any words not approved of as 'politically correct' - that's not progressive. Putting 'trigger warnings' on books, movies, music, anything that might offend people - that's not progressive, either. Dave Rubin wordsmoviesmusicpeople It's not always about winning. If you can, really, just show people - If they're being awful, be less awful. Dave Rubin youalwayswinningpeople The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too. Dave Rubin laughyoufunnypeople I don't like Mitt Romney. I wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney in a million years. Mitt Romney is no ally of the gay community. Dave Rubin likevotegaycommunity Sometimes inaction is worse than action. Dave Rubin worseinactionactionsometimes As a comedian, frankly, I don't care that much about bad jokes. Dave Rubin dont-carebadjokescare I liked Rebecca Black's 'Friday.' Dave Rubin likedfridayblack Even though standup seems like one-way conversation, if you're doing it right, it's actually a two-way discussion between the comic and the audience... the audience just happens to be communicating through laughter. Dave Rubin doingyoulaughterconversation I got into politics when I was 12, back when George H. W. Bush was running against Michael Dukakis. We did a mock election in my social studies class, and I remember how so much of what was thought of as liberal made sense to me. Dave Rubin meelectionpoliticsremember Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalistAll Authors
