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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
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"I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."
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"Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree."
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"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
Man,
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"Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery."
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"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."
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"Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough."
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"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."
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"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
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"Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later."
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"There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa."
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"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."
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"Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal."
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"I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up."
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"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
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"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game."
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"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures."
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"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set."
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"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
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"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
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"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure."
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"Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family."
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"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."
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"When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on."
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"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
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"The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread."
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"Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed."
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"I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em."
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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
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"House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad."
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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
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"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned."
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"I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense."
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"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."
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"The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts."
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"The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer."
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"Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice."
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"Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy."
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"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."
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"It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike."
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"But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us."
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"And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish."
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"The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco."
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