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Quotes by Journalist
"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him."
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"There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can."
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"I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means."
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"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."
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"Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female."
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"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
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"As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name."
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"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
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"It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century."
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"A global democracy works only when countries trust one another."
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"I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not."
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"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
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"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."
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"Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set."
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
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"The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured."
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"I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization."
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"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."
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"And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist."
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"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."
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"I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures."
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"One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?"
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"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."
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"When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling."
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"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."
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"I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there."
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"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen."
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"Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place."
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"When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday."
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"All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful."
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"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt."
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"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
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"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."
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"If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on."
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"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."
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"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
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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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"After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really."
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"You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights."
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"Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement."
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"At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence."
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"All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty."
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"Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index."
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"For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy."
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"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it."
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"If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home."
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"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."
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