"I expected to go into journalism or law."

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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

Journalism, Europe

"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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"I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists."

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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."

"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."

"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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"I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women."

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"I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists."

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