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Quotes by Journalist
"The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out."
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"What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well."
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"I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers."
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"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."
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"The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water."
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"Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people."
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"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."
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"Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit."
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"I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans."
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"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
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"Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces."
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"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
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"Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done."
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"We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was."
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"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership."
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"Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice."
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"It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere."
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"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
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"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."
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"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."
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"I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists."
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"No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'."
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"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
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"I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures."
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"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."
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"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
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"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"
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"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."
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"When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling."
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"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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"But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it."
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"Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth."
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"One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound."
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"I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there."
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"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
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"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."
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"And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is."
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"To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison."
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"To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling."
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"When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste."
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"Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!"
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"I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it."
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"The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November."
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