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Quotes by Journalist
"It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS."
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"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting."
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"I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear."
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"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."
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"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep."
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"The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father."
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"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."
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"If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you."
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"Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut."
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"Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls."
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"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."
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"To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent."
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"I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done."
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"The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not."
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"We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together."
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"I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work."
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"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."
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"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
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"I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents."
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"The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas."
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"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."
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"U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive."
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"Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children."
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"In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves."
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"Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something."
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"We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires."
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"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows."
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"This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it-that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
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"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."
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"Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge."
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"Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?"
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"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors."
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"In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year."
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"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country."
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"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell."
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"The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go."
Will,
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"I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America."
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"A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever."
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"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed."
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"It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot -- and I was on Vieques, where it was always hot and where New York and London and Rome were just names on a map."
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"So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime."
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"I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done."
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"I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends."
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"You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?"
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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
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"The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics."
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