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Quotes by Journalist
"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might."
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"Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored."
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"We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other."
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"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be."
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"Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you."
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"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
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"In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence."
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"I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it."
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"I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em."
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"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense."
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"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."
News,
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"To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right."
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"When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden."
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"People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities."
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"It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them."
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"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight."
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"I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job."
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"I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way."
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"So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather."
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"Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to."
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"The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys."
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"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
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"I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run."
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"I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful."
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"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."
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"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count."
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
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"I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time."
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"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."
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"Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life."
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"The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese."
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"And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help."
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"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."
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"The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts."
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"We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit."
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"The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place."
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"I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up."
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"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""
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"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
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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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"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt."
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"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
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"About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury."
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"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones."
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"Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate."
Will,
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"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."
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