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Quotes by Journalist
"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving."
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"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."
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"The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity."
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"The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'"
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"Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar."
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"Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates."
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"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
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"I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour."
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place."
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"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."
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"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
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"To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible."
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"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
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"That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day."
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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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"Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve."
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"John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush."
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"Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television."
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"I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers."
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"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."
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"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning."
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"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
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"I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages."
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"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
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"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
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"I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman."
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"I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists."
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"There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority."
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"My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do."
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"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before."
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"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
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"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
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"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
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"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."
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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 know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity."
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"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
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"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."
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"Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage."
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"The seventh reader interrupts you: 'Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could only end in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.'You stop for a moment to reflect on these words. Then, in a flash, you decide you want to marry Ludmilla."
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"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."
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"Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to."
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"Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express."
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"It's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor -- biting down on a wooden spoon, so as not to disturb the men's card game -- before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field."
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"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one."
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"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."
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"And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program."
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"It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats."
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"If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon."
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