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Quotes by Journalist
"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."
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"American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free."
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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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"Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows."
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"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented."
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"They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun."
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"If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people."
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"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."
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"Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning."
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"Being in touch with the natural world is crucial."
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"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
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"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."
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"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect."
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"It never got weird enough for me."
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"Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments."
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"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."
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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."
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"I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display."
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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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"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."
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"Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side."
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"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
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"I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almost any experimentation or idea, where you have to evaluate it, maybe our time has come. In the context of the real world, not just the American world but all around, we haven't done too well. We are not a very good advertisement for the idea we represented. If you lose one wheel of the car, you might be able to get to the side of the road, and some freaks can make it on two, but if you lose three, man, you're in serious trouble. I think we've lost three."
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"A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings."
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
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"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."
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"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."
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"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."
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"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
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"There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M."
Body,
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"You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?"
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"After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers."
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"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
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"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."
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"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals."
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"There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship."
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"He starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines."
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"Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not."
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"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people."
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"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
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"Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL."
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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
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"Conservation is now a dead word."
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"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt."
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"The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud."
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"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."
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"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."
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