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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."
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"I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them."
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"I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself."
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"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."
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"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."
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"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."
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"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."
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"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."
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"You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer."
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"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
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"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."
Anthropology
"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
Anthropology
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
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"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous."
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"We're getting closer to our nature."
Nature
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
Anthropology
"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
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