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Quotes by Journalist
"Politics is show business for ugly people."
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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
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"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."
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"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income."
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"There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals."
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"Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone."
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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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"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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"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
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"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
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"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."
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"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
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"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."
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"I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words."
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"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
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"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"
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"This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart."
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"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
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"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
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"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
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"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."
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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
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"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
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"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
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"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."
Will,
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"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
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"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
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"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
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"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
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"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
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"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be."
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"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."
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"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives."
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"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show."
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"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
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"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
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"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
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"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
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"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."
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"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."
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"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
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"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract."
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"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
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