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"Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin."
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"I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad."
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"Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat."
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"I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath."
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"Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press."
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"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
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"Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me."
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"TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press."
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"We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us."
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"All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf."
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
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"You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information."
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"I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today."
Technology
"I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere."
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"My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?"
Environment
"They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war."
War
"We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name."
Work
"If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military."
Business
"I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here."
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"Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible."
War
"Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin."
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