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"Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources."
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"Big Brother is watching you."
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Personal Development
"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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"It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either."
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"If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was."
Government
"Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources."
Family
"I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section."
Business
"People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia."
People
"I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way."
Environment
"When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice."
Business
"I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful."
People
"Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist."
Being
"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
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