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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today."
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"In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this."
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"I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely."
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"After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers."
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"How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence."
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"And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them."
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"Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word."
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"As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher."
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"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
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"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."
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"It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World."
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"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals."
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"The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself."
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"It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine."
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"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."
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"I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America."
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"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
Film,
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"Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable."
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"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
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"Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt."
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"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."
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"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."
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"It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ..."
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"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."
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"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
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"The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud."
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"I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."
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"All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me."
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"To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity."
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"I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it."
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"But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right."
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"I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."
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"The way to write is well, and how is your own business."
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"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"
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