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All Quotes Collection
"More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager."
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"I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too."
52
"Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences."
42
"It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers."
52
"Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda."
27
"Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious."
69
"Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence."
35
"What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority."
51
"The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all."
36
"I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for."
48
"I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade."
46
"But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table."
33
"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
41
"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
54
"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."
48
"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."
45
"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."
47
"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
39
"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."
43
"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day."
47
"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive."
44
"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people."
44
"They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be."
44
"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."
56
"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
52
"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."
64
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
76
"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
54
"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
65
"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
56
"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."
55
"But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world."
69
"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."
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