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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.Ho ho ho. Let's not get carried away here. Freedom was yesterday in this country. Its value has been discounted. The only freedom we truly crave today is freedom from Dumbness. Nothing else matters."
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"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."
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"You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!"
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"The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you."
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"Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting."
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"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."
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"Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist."
Hair,
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"You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know."
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"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."
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"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."
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"I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix."
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"The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink."
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"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
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"He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture."
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"I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right."
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"Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's."
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"My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college."
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"One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics."
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"Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus."
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"I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know."
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"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
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"Being attractive and being credible can and do go together."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
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"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."
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"I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine."
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"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."
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"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"
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"Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody."
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"There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years."
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"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
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"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."
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"And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England."
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"Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority."
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"A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat."
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"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose."
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"We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that."
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"One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure."
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"Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name."
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"Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral."
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