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"The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good."
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"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."
"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
"Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance."
"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."
"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."
"Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness."
"Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance."
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"Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist."
"I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
"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."
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