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Quotes by Journalist
"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."
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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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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
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"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."
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"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
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"Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor."
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"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
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"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."
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"Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
Work,
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"Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy."
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"No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing."
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"All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well."
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"So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also."
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"In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it."
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"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."
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"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."
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"Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali."
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"For all that people have tried to abuse it and disown it. "feminism" is still the word we need. No other word will do. And let's face it, there has been no other word, save "Girl Power" -- which makes you sound like you're into some branch of Scientology owned by Geri Halliwell. That "Girl Power" has been the sole rival to the word "feminism" in the last 50 years is a cause for much sorrow on behalf of the women. After all, P. Diddy has had four different names, and he's just one man."
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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."
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"I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time."
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"There's a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It's a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I'd take advantage of it while you can."
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"But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened."
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"To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."
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"Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.Ho ho ho. Let's not get carried away here. Freedom was yesterday in this country. Its value has been discounted. The only freedom we truly crave today is freedom from Dumbness. Nothing else matters."
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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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"I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy."
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"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."
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"I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling."
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"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."
Hurt,
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"We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person."
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"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."
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"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
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"At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety."
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"I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera."
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"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies."
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"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
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"The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence."
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"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
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"You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad."
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"Networking is an essential part of building wealth."
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"Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit."
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"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
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"Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you."
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"Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads."
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"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."
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