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Quotes by Journalist
"I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift."
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59
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
58
"I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing."
57
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."
56
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
55
"I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister."
55
"Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly."
55
"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."
54
"It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out."
54
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
53
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
53
"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
53
"I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself."
53
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
50
"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
50
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
50
"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."
50
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
49
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
47
"This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart."
47
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."
47
"Politics is show business for ugly people."
46
"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."
46
"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."
45
"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
45
"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."
44
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
43
"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
42
"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."
42
"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
42
"Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public."
42
"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."
42
"Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?"
41
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
41
"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
41
"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."
41
"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
41
"A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China."
41
"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."
41
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
41
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
41
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
Will,
41
"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues."
41
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
41
"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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