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Quotes by Journalist
"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
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"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."
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"Rich people march on Washington every day."
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"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."
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"I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York."
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"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."
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"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."
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"I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it."
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"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."
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"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."
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"TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch."
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"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."
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"The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?""
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"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
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"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
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"The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast."
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"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
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"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."
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"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep."
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"Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in."
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"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
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"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
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"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
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"Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important."
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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
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"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."
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"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
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"I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies."
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"I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots."
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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
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"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."
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"Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything."
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
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"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."
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"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."
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"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
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"That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection."
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"As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later."
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"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
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"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."
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"All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism."
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