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Quotes by Journalist
"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."
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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."
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"Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived."
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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to."
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"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."
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"I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them."
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"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
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"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
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"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
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"Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear."
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"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
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"I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience."
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"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
Poor,
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"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."
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"The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism."
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"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
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"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."
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"Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months."
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"With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist."
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"When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are."
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"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
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"Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having."
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"People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming."
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"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."
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"Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left."
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"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."
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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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"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue."
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"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
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"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."
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"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
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"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"
God,
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"It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart."
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"Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last."
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"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."
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"There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back."
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"I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it."
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"February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned."
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"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
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"There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary."
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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."
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"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."
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"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
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