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Quotes by Journalist
"If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat."
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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
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"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."
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"Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important."
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"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional."
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"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?""
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"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure."
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"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
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"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."
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"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
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"Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'."
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"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile."
Time,
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"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
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"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."
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"Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits."
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"Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery."
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"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
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"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
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"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."
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"Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"
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"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief."
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"Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice."
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"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
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"Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards."
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"A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."
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"If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides."
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"Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in."
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"If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future."
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"I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation."
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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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"To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible."
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"I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward."
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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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"I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling."
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"It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you!"
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"The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly."
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"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."
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"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."
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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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"The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly."
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"The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous."
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"Vices are often habits rather than passions."
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"A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town."
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"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
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"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics."
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"Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on."
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"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
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