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Quotes by Journalist
"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."
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"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial."
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"I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years."
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"The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car."
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"And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture."
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"When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language."
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"As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process."
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"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."
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"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."
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"We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."
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"Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation."
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"I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me."
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"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."
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"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."
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"Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared."
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"We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things."
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"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."
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"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."
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"Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties."
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"But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."
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"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."
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"In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China."
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"We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate."
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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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"I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense."
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"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."
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"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
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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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"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"
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"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."
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"It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory."
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"At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that."
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"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."
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"You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone."
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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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"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."
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"Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events."
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"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."
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"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."
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"The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead."
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"The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it."
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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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