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Quotes by Journalist
"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings."
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"What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well."
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"From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America."
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"Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children."
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"I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans."
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"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."
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"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."
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"I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?"
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"I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on."
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"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting."
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"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
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"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."
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"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
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"The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?"
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"Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice."
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"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
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"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
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"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."
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"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed."
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"No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists."
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"I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park."
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"The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers."
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"Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God."
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
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"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."
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"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
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"I don't understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women - women trying to make rational decisions about their futures and, usually, that of their families, too - should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church."
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"Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be."
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"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."
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"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."
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"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
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"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."
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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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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."
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"My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down."
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"It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!"
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"But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate."
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"We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous."
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"I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas."
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"If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat."
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"Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust."
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"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."
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"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"
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"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward."
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"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
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