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Quotes by Journalist
"There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that."
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"Playing golf is like learning a foreign language."
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"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
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"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."
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"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."
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"I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it."
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"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
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"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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"I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words."
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"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
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"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."
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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
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"The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent."
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"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
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"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
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"I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed."
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"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract."
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"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
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"What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right."
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"The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them."
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"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
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"There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority."
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"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
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"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."
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"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
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"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
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"I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue."
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"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."
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"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself."
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
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"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."
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"Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important."
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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."
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"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
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"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
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"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it."
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"What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others."
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"Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way."
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"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
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