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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."
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"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."
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"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."
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"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
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"Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in."
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"The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed."
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"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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"The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men."
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"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote."
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"Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape."
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"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."
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"Journalism, to me, is just another drug " a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. But I'm neither a chemist nor an editor; all I do is take the pill or the assignment and see what happens. Now and then I get a bad trip, but experience has made me more careful about what I buy... so if you have a good pill I'm open; I'll try almost anything that hasn't bitten me in the past."
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"Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."
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"The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end."
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"I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat."
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"The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news."
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"There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here."
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"But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate."
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"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
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"Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people."
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"As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith."
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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
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"Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk."
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"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
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"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
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"The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion."
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"Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose."
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"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based."
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"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is."
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"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."
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"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril."
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"A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights."
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"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
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"You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about."
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"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."
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"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward."
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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
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"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
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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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"More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international."
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