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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."
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"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
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"My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help."
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"In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history."
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"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
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"Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians."
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"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."
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"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."
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"The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN."
Now,
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"My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now."
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"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."
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"I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate."
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"When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important."
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"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
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"You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity."
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"So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove."
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"I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces."
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"The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set."
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"I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas."
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"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up."
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"Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?"
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"The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you."
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"Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls."
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"From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty."
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"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."
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"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
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"If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism."
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"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
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"Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being."
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"I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband."
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"At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better."
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"If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life."
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"I was also in love with the English language."
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"I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning."
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"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."
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"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be."
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"Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you."
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"I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be."
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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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"Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy."
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"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair."
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"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."
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