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Kingman Brewster, Jr.

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."

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Amber Hurdle

"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."

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Amber Hurdle

"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."

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Amber Hurdle

"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying."

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Amber Hurdle

"You cannot have your cake and eat it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Ambiguity

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."

Life

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."

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