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"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."
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"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."
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"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
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"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."
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"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."
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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."
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"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours."
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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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"The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close."
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"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
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"Celebrity is very weird."
Celebrity

"I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy."
Technology

"I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else."
Act

"Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it."
America

"I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making."
Movies

"When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'"
Time

"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."
Faith

"And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'"
Months

"My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way."
Work

"The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award."
People
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