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Quotes by Journalist
"In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled."
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"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids."
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"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business."
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"Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived."
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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
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"I love color and I love to dress like a woman."
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"The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it."
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"It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man."
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"22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush."
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"Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments."
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"The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small."
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"Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self."
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"I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan."
Vote,
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"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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"We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government."
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"What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting."
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"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."
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"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."
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"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."
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"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."
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"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
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"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
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"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."
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"If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."
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"I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy."
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"Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult."
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"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
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"The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other."
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"The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost."
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"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
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"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
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"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."
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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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"I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that."
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"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."
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"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!"
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"Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen."
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"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth."
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"I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving."
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"I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life."
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"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."
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"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it."
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"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves."
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"There are no friends at cards or world politics."
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"Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century."
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"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."
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"Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home."
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"But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love."
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