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John Pomfret

"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."

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"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."

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Asa Don Brown

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Asa Don Brown

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Asa Don Brown

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Asa Don Brown

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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Asa Don Brown

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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Asa Don Brown

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

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Asa Don Brown

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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Asa Don Brown

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

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Asa Don Brown

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

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Asa Don Brown

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

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John Pomfret
"For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army."

Politics

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John Pomfret
"But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight."

People

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John Pomfret
"I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police."

Media

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John Pomfret
"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."

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John Pomfret
"Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to."

Life

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John Pomfret
"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."

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John Pomfret
"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

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John Pomfret
"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever."

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John Pomfret
"A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life."

Life

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"I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences."

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