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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
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"Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch."
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"Doubt is the father of invention."
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"Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer."
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"It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot -- and I was on Vieques, where it was always hot and where New York and London and Rome were just names on a map."
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"This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops."
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"In a world where you can get a spare kidney, a black-market Picasso or a ticket to ride into space, why can't I see some actual sex? Some actual fucking from people who want to fuck each other? Some chick in an outfit I halfway respect, having the time of her life? I have MONEY. I'm willing to PAY for this. I AM NOW A 35-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, AND I JUST WANT A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR INTERNATIONAL PORN INDUSTRY WHERE I CAN SEE A WOMAN COME. I just want to see a good time."
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"You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!"
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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."
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"I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent."
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"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."
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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure."
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"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives."
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"But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human."
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"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."
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"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
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"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."
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"There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better."
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"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles."
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"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."
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"I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you."
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"This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history."
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"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
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"Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science."
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"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
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"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong"."
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"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
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"Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it."
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"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
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"Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather."
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"Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them."
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"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."
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"Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice."
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"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."
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"They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary."
Life,
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"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
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"I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character."
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"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
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"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."
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"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."
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"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him."
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