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"I expected to go into journalism or law."
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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
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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...."
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"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
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"I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story."
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"I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college."
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"I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money."
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"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money."
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"No, I never thought about my father's money as my money."
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"Half of my employees are women."
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"Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock."
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"I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images."
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"The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway."
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"Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate."
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"It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races."
Money
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