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Quotes by Journalist
"To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?"
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"Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place."
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"Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well."
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"In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud."
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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 only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer."
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"This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such."
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"The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin."
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"I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days."
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"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."
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"Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters."
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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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"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."
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"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
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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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"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes."
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"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."
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"The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?"
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"It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me."
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"Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion."
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"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."
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"As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person."
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"All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty."
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"The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about."
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"So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused."
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"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."
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"One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all."
Food,
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"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside."
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"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed."
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"We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them."
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"No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists."
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"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."
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"Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability."
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"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork."
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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."
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"When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness."
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"You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever."
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"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."
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"Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."
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"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."
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"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."
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"Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses."
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"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!"
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"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
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"It's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor -- biting down on a wooden spoon, so as not to disturb the men's card game -- before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field."
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"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."
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"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
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"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky."
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