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Quotes by Journalist
"McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base."
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"Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting."
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"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."
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"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
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"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics."
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"Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people."
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"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."
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"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat."
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"I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day."
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"It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere."
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"There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness."
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"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow."
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"And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing."
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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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"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."
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"The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families."
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"Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work."
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"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."
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"One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically."
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"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."
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"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense."
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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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"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."
News,
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"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
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"We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different."
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"I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life."
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"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
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"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
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"The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America."
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"Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well."
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"I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults."
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"Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters."
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"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."
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"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro."
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"I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up."
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"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold."
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"My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now."
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"I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier."
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"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
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"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."
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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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"Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be."
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"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
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