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Quotes by Editor
"The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them."
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"Write about society as news and treat it like sociology."
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."
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"The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible."
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"Journalism is in fact history on the run."
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"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October."
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"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."
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"In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points."
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"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven."
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"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."
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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
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"Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it."
Fact,
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"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
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"It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
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"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election."
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"Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition."
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"I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been."
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"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."
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"It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it."
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"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
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"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."
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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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"I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was."
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"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."
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"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."
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"Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand."
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"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
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