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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees."
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"Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice."
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"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
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"This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think."
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"Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?"
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"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
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"George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam."
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"Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger."
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"The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish."
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"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."
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"Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?"
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"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code."
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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
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"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
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"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe."
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"I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist."
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"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."
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"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."
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"Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency."
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"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."
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"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
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"Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes."
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"It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people."
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"The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt."
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"The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend."
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"I'm covering the worst president in American history."
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"Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel."
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"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."
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"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
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"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
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"Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left."
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"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination."
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"Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut."
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"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."
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"Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers."
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"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset."
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"Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?"
God,
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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."
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"We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together."
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"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
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"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."
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"Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?"
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"As far as you are able to gather from hints scattered through these letters, Apocryphal Power, riven by internecine battles and eluding the control of its founder, Ermes Marana, has broken into two groups: a sect of enlightened followers of the Archangel of Light and a sect of nihilist followers of the Archon of Shadow. The former are convinced that among the false books flooding the world they can track down the few that bear a truth perhaps extrahuman or extraterrestrial. The latter believe that only counterfeiting, mystification, intentional falsehood can represent absolute value in a book, a truth not contaminated by the dominant pseudo truths."
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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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