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Quotes by Journalist
"It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more."
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"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
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"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
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"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."
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"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
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"You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him."
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"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
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"Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to."
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"Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency."
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"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things."
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"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
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"Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully."
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"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."
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"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
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"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."
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"I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us."
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"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."
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"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
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"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
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"There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans."
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"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
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"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
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"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"
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"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
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"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
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"I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was."
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"The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this."
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"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth."
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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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"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking."
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"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."
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"There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today."
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"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be."
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"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues."
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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
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"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
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"I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming."
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"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
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"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
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"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
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"A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China."
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