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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."
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"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
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"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
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"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."
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"Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be."
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"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob."
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"So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever."
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"I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful."
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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 Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery."
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"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."
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"If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home."
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"The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role."
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"The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway."
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"American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution."
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"Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!"
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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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"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe."
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"I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist."
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"Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be."
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"A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride."
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"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
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"Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything."
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"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
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"Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image."
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"Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time."
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"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free."
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"The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties."
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"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians."
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"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."
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"Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."
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"Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds."
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"The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt."
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"One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun."
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"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
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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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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy."
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"Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was."
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"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be."
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"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me."
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"My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others."
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"Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter."
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"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball."
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"All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market."
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"When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected."
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"Never order food in excess of your body weight."
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"I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism."
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