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Quotes by Journalist
"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
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"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do."
Risk,
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"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
13
"The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down."
13
"In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down."
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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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"The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis."
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"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
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"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid."
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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."
13
"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
13
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
Will,
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"I don't think business news is just for old white men with money."
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"For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'"
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"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
12
"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
12
"The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this."
12
"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton."
12
"This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons."
12
"Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left."
12
"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."
12
"These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam."
12
"Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere."
12
"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
12
"Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL."
12
"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."
12
"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."
11
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
11
"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
11
"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."
11
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
11
"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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"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
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"One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound."
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"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
Duty,
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"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
11
"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
11
"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."
11
"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."
11
"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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"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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"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
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"So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured."
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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
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