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Quotes by Journalist
"As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. We strive to be ourselves. But don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that we can't be firemen, bankers, or doctors - but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal...In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he knows he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important."
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"I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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"As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith."
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"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile."
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"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
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"I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America."
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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
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"Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country."
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"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about."
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"The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters."
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"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
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"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril."
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"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
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"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."
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"From mirror to mirror - this is what I happen to dream of - the totality of things, the whole, the entire universe, divine wisdom could concentrate their luminous rays into a single mirror. Or perhaps the knowledge of everything is buried in the soul, and a system of mirrors that would multiply my image would then reveal to me the soul of the universe, which is hidden in mine."
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"And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?"
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"The shelves were supposed to be loaded with books-but they were, of course, really doors: each book-lid opened as exciting as Alice putting her gold key in the lock. I spent days running in and out of other worlds like a time bandit, or a spy. I was as excited as I've ever been in my life, in that library: scoring new books the minute they came in; ordering books I'd heard of-then waiting, fevered, for them to arrive, like they were the word Christmas."
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"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
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"Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you."
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"If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf."
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"But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans."
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"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
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"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
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"I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion."
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"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."
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"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
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"George Bush is trying to play it both ways."
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"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."
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"The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won."
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"The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough."
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"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."
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"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does."
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"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another."
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"People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia."
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
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"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one."
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"Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying."
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"You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards."
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"The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink."
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"I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran."
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"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
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"So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?"
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