"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

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"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."

Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman

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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Journalism, Writing, Belief, Language

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Journalism, Truth, Life, Death

"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Journalism, First, Questioning, Right, Washington

"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."

Judith Rossner, American Novelist

Journalism, Publishing, Writers

"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."

Julian Assange, Australian Activist

Journalism, Controversy

"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."

Robert McChesney, American Critic

Journalism, News, Television

"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."

Diane Sawyer, American Journalist

Journalism, Cats, Curiosity

"The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Journalism, Post, Rap, Washington, Years

"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

Journalism, Vocabulary

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"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."

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"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."

"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."

"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."

"The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused."

"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism."

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"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."

"Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it."

"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."

"It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."

"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

"And we forget because we must and not because we will."