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Quotes by Journalist
"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning."
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"I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority."
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"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
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"The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them."
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"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
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"Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out."
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"I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup."
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"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."
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"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure."
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"The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good."
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"And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo."
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"Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end."
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"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."
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"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."
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"You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions."
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"How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man."
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"But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do."
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"But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it."
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"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts."
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"You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when."
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"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
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"Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have."
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"Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event."
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"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."
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"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
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"I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way."
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"Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own."
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"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
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"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."
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"We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it."
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"Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children."
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"One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?"
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"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."
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"He's still not interviewing other people; he's still interviewing himself."
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"A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen."
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"After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes."
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"I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public."
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"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
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"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
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"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
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"One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically."
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"If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone."
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"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."
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"This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay."
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"If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man."
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"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."
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"Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened."
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"A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France."
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