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"I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China."
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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."
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"I like zombies, Stephen King also like them.Zombies are pretty interesting creatures,..."
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"An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members."
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"When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke."
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"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."
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"When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs."
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
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"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."
People
"In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything."
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"But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight."
People
"I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China."
Time
"The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession."
Work
"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever."
Thought
"I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences."
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"A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life."
Life
"For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army."
Politics
"My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd."
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