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Quotes by Journalist
"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"
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"I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system."
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"The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy."
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"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
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"Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents."
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"I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow."
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"One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief."
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"The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men."
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"When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike."
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"To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something."
Hair,
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"The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end."
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"Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children."
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"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup."
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"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday."
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"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."
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"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
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"In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid."
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"I have a pretty good handle on my anxiety. I basically treat myself like a nervy horse: lots of exercise, lots of sleep, lots of interesting work to keep my mind occupied, and generally avoiding being ridden hard by strangers."
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"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."
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"Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back."
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"And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama."
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"It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species."
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"As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits."
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"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most."
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"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."
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"In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point."
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"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"
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"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
News,
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"I had in effect a user base eager to buy porn but no one to sell it to them."
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"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing."
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"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."
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"I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by."
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"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
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"Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases."
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"It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics."
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"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth"."
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"I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it."
Talk,
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"We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote."
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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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"You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for."
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"And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up."
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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
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"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
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"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."
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