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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"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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"Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub."
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"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."
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"We love your adherence to democratic principles."
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"And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical."
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"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
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"Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century."
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"What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university."
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"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
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"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year."
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"To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation."
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"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."
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"You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me."
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"But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth."
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"People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely."
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"Playing golf is like learning a foreign language."
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"And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war."
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"I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst."
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"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
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"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
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"Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity."
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"In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else."
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"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
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"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"
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"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
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"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it."
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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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"It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that."
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"When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin."
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"We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans."
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"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"
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"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."
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"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it."
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"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
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"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."
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