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Quotes by Journalist
"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
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"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."
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"I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head."
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"Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe."
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"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."
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"The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about."
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"I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends."
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"Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there."
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"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
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"There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know."
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"In fact, in recent years I have become more and more didactic about pubic hair - to the point where I now believe that there are only four things a grown, modern woman should have: a pair of yellow shoes (they unexpectedly go with everything), a friend who will come and post bail at 4 a.m., a fail-safe pie recipe, and a proper muff. A big, hairy minge. A lovely furry moof that looks - when she sits, naked - as if she has a marmoset sitting in her lap. A tame marmoset, that she can send of to pickpocket things, should she so need it - like that trained monkey in Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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"Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances."
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"I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration."
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"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."
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"I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner."
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"Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away over the branches as if she were flying, with him clambering after her, and that skirt of hers always in his face."
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"Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
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"David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph."
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"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
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"I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there."
Will,
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"Why d'you make me suffer?''Because I love you.Now it was his turn to get angry. 'No, no, you don't love me! People in love want happiness, not pain!'People in love want only love, even at the cost of pain.'Then you're making people suffer on purpose.'Yes, to see if you love me.The Baron's philosophy would not go any further. 'Pain is a negative state of the soul. 'Love is all. 'Pain should always be fought against.'Love refuses nothing.'Some things I'll never admit.'Oh yes, you do, now, for you love me and you suffer."
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"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
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"Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time."
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"We love your adherence to democratic principles."
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"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."
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"What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university."
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"The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable."
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"Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences."
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"Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before."
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"I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time."
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"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."
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"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas."
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"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."
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"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."
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"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."
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"It may be a penny for your thoughts, but it is now a quarter for your voice."
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"Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing."
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"I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality."
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"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
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"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words."
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"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."
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"Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well."
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"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty."
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"The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules."
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"Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself."
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"I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."
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