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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."
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"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
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"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book."
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"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."
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"Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home."
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"But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer."
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"Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false."
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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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"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."
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"Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats."
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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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"The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls . . . Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."
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"Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents."
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"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset."
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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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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
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"A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government."
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"Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens."
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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
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"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."
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"Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion-often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation-that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter."
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"In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation."
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"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
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"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants."
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"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."
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"The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused."
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"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
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"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
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"Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7."
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"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."
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"No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing."
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"It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner."
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"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
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"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."
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"Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant."
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"What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out."
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"Calling O'Hare an airport is like calling the Queen Elizabeth II a boat."
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"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book."
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"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."
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"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
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"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
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"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."
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