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Quotes by Journalist
"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."
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"The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans."
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"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
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"As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name."
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"I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one."
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"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
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"All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law."
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"Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls."
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"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."
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"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
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"My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him."
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"And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even."
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"And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature."
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"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
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"Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists."
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"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
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"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
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"Networking is an essential part of building wealth."
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"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."
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"McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base."
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"A global democracy works only when countries trust one another."
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"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
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"Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."
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"The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed."
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"What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting."
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"I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine."
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"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."
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"Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set."
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"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
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"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources."
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"There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist."
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"Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family."
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"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."
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"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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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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"The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured."
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"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow."
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"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."
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"And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist."
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"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."
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"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."
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"When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice."
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"I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman."
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