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Quotes by Journalist
"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."
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"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
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"It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent."
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"As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process."
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"I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent."
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"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."
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"But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it."
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"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight."
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"And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is."
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"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."
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"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
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"Motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible."
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"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."
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"The character of a people may be ruined by charity."
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"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."
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"I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days."
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"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."
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"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."
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"The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy."
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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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"Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss."
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"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."
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"I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them."
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"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."
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"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
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"For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world."
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"I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think."
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"So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused."
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"There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously."
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"People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician."
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"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
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"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."
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"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
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"Inanimate 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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"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."
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"I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience."
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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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"There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on."
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"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."
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"Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake."
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"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
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"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."
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"To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation."
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"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."
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"The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts."
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"Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English."
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