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Quotes by Journalist
"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."
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"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."
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"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."
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"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."
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"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people."
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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."
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"If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war."
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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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"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
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"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
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"Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here."
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"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one."
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"Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find."
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"Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying."
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"Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie."
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"You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten."
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"I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong."
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"Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
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"Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead."
Dogs,
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"Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching."
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"It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did."
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"I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought."
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"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."
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"John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush."
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"Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep."
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"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
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"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies."
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"It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening."
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"Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose."
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"I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great."
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"Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you."
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"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it."
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"Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us."
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"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
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"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."
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"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."
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"The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism."
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"It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill."
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"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
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"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."
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"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
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"We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great."
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