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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?"
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"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."
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"The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters."
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"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."
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"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism."
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"In Washington, success is just a training course for failure."
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"Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States."
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"All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common."
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"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."
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"I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible."
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"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
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"I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for."
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"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
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"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."
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"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."
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"The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."
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"Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God."
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"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
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"I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling."
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"There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know."
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"Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer."
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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
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"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it."
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"Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it."
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"First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish."
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"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."
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"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
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"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
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"I don't understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women - women trying to make rational decisions about their futures and, usually, that of their families, too - should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church."
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"The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified."
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"One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?"
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"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat."
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"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
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"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."
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"But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me."
Talk,
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"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
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"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."
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"The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death."
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"Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it."
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