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Quotes by Journalist
"I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day."
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"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
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"There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence."
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"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."
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"Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer."
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"House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad."
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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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"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
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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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"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned."
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"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."
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"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."
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"Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak."
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"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
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"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."
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"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
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"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before."
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"Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice."
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"But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us."
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"Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss."
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"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
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"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro."
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"Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds."
Hell,
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"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon."
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"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."
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"Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index."
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"The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar."
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"There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously."
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"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
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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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"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
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"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."
Food,
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"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
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"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one."
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"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world."
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"Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs."
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"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."
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"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."
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"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
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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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"The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change."
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"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."
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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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"Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back."
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"Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before."
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