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Quotes by Journalist
"Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
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"Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict."
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"I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test."
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"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
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"I didn't realize the president was such an historian."
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"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
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"I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared."
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"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
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"I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming."
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"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."
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"The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate."
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"Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie."
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"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief."
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"I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation."
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"Being attractive and being credible can and do go together."
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"Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching."
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"Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face."
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"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
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"I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck."
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"I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is."
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"It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you!"
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"I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading."
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"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
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"The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck."
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"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."
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"Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls."
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"I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support."
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"I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great."
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"The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water."
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"Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win."
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"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
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"Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces."
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"The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good."
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"I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded."
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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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"You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst."
Rain,
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"Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on."
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"You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful."
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"A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes."
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"Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ."
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"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be."
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"If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone."
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"The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism."
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"See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners."
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