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Quotes by Journalist
"So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?"
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"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."
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"I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest."
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"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."
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"A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering."
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"He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled."
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"It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?"
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"And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover."
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"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs."
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"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass."
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"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."
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"This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff."
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"The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins."
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"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."
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"People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception."
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"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
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"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."
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"In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country."
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"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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"Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people."
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"All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself."
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"I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory."
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"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
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"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble."
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"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."
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"Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism."
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"The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop."
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"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."
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"When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."
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"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well."
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"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."
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"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."
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"News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received."
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"To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison."
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"It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle."
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"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
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"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count."
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"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
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"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day."
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"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
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"I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation."
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"There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality."
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"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."
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"Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells."
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"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government."
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