PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot:

When contacted by THR, a representative for Weinstein said, “Harvey Weinstein was out with friends enjoying the music and trying to find some solace in his life that has been turned upside down. This scene was uncalled for, downright rude and an example of how due process today is being squashed by the public, trying to take it away in the courtroom too.”

—“Women Confront Harvey Weinstein at Actors Event, Asked to ‘Shut Up’ and Leave,” the Hollywood Reporter, yesterday.

Chaser:

“You know what? It’s good that I’m the fucking sheriff of this fucking lawless piece-of-shit town.” Weinstein said that to Andrew Goldman, then a reporter for the New York Observer, when he took him out of a party in a headlock last November [circa 2001] after there was a tussle for Goldman’s tape recorder and someone got knocked in the head.

—As quoted in “Nasty, Brutish, and Fat: Of Hobbes and Harvey Weinstein,” John Podhoretz, Commentary, October 2017.