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Quotes by Journalist
"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat."
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"You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful."
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"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
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"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."
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"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence."
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"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
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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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"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."
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"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
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"Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it."
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"I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't."
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"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"
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"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
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"If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."
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"Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him."
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"Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt."
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"I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life."
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"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."
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"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
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"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."
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"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there."
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"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
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"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."
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"I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue."
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"The character of a people may be ruined by charity."
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"When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday."
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"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
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"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
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"All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful."
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"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
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"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."
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"What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground."
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"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."
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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."
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"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
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"That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics."
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"Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded."
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"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
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"I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble."
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"All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over."
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"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."
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"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."
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"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."
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"I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch."
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"I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished."
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"At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence."
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