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Quotes by Journalist
"The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified."
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"I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses."
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"Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you."
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"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."
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"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."
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"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world."
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"The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves."
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"I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents."
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"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."
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"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
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"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
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"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."
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"The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby."
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"The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day."
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"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be."
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"Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude."
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"One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one."
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"Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both."
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"When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected."
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"To be, or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. But what if Shakespeare - and Hamlet - were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?"
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"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."
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"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"
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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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"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."
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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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"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."
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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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"So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing."
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"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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"The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas."
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"In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves."
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"I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy."
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"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."
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"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
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"The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion."
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"Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense."
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"All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."
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"Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep."
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"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
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"I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends."
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"There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else."
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"Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the "luxury" of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light."
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"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."
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"It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't."
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"And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them."
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"The cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in."
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"Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask."
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