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All Quotes Collection
"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."
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"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
37
"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions."
38
"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
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"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
19
"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."
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"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
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"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
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"I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet."
31
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful."
29
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
63
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
66
"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
43
"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
60
"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
66
"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
66
"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
57
"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
42
"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
55
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
69
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
61
"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
57
"The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices."
31
"Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous."
44
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!""
46
"For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders."
59
"Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved."
44
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
67
"Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush."
42
"The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own."
38
"Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball."
49
"When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable."
49
"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."
46
"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
51
"The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important."
38
"I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business."
35
"My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job."
37
"My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father."
40
"Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me."
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