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Quotes by Journalist
"To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling."
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"I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant."
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"So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather."
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"On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child."
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"The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November."
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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'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time."
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"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."
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"The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it."
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"But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist."
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"The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters."
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"Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days."
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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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"It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me."
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"You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are."
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"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."
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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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"When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important."
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"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
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"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination."
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"What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal."
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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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"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob."
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"From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty."
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"I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you."
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"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
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"Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."
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"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
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"There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that."
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"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."
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"Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub."
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"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
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"It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident."
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"And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical."
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"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."
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"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me."
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
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"Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity."
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"Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing."
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"Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady."
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"It's getting the right person that's the challenge."
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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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"If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you."
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"Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose."
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"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."
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"My parents always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product."
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"There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here."
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"Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last."
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