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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
Will
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
Truth
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
Success
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
Life
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
Literature
"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
News
"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
Admiration
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
Commonplace
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
Truth
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
Poet
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"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
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"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."
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"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
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"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
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"Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates."
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"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."
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"Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible."
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