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Quotes by Journalist
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
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"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
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"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."
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"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."
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"I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift."
Want,
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"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
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"Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone."
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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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"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
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"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
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"Politics is show business for ugly people."
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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 is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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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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"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."
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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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"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
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"For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'"
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"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
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"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
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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."
25
"This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart."
25
"The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis."
25
"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
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"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
25
"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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"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
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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."
24
"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
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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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"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
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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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"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
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"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
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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 have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
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"Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL."
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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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"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 thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
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"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do."
Risk,
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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."
22
"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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