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Quotes by Journalist
"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
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"You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards."
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place."
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"I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports."
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"By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities."
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"What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time."
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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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"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."
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"There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are."
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"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day."
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"I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in."
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"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"
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"Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office."
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"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views."
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"I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches."
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"Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches."
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"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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"Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends."
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"In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual."
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"Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face."
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."
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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
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"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."
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"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
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"Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning."
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"No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial."
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"There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes."
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"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."
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"The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?"
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"They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose."
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"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive."
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"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him."
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"And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order."
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"I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out."
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"A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders."
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"There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can."
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"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."
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"I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading."
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"Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless."
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"The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced."
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"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."
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"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad."
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"I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people."
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"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity."
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"At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety."
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"The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins."
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"All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it."
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"To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated."
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