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Quotes by Editor
"Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?"
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"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."
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"I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die."
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"Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after."
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"You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power."
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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."
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"God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars."
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"Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists."
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"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."
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"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."
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"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
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"You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy."
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"Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession."
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"You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy."
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"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else."
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"Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions."
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"John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly."
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"This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job."
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"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."
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"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."
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"I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals."
Life,
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"In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall."
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"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."
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"Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people."
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"He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table."
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"The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not."
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"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius."
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