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"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
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"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."
"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."
"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."
"I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about."
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"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
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