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Quotes by Journalist
"I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by."
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"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
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"This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it."
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"We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves."
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"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."
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"My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end."
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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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"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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"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
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"Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy."
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"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."
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"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."
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"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes."
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"I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced."
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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"
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"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience."
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"They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children."
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"MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming."
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"In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country."
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"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set."
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"So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored."
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"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."
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"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
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"Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children."
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"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
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"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."
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"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
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"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble."
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
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"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure."
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"There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality."
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"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"
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"But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system."
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"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."
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"And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine."
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"The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet."
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"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."
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"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child."
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"When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on."
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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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"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."
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"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
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"Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking."
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"I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it."
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"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
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"When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."
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"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."
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"And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that."
Luck,
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