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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore."
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"I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just."
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"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
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"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people."
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"The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium."
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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
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"Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences."
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"A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them."
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"The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy."
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"I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time."
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"Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke."
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"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."
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"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."
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"When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet."
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"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place."
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"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."
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"We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people."
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"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."
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"This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb."
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"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."
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"The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can."
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"Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."
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"Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do."
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"No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick."
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"Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers."
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"Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that."
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"Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused."
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"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
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"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
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"One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief."
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"My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman."
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"Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides."
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"Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission."
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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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"I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth."
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"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
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"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
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"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work."
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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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"People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?"
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"I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things."
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"Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth."
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