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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts."
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"Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject."
Want,
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"An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court."
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"Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting."
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"Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print."
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"We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different."
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"My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work."
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"The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness."
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"News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received."
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"But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before."
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"It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines."
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"When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics."
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"In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen."
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"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism."
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"But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be."
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"The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America."
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"Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't."
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"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."
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"Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult."
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"I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began."
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"Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats."
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"Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive."
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"The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend."
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"You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for."
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"I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time."
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"Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person."
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"I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America."
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"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."
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"When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies."
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"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."
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"When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper."
Want,
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"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."
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"Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God."
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"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."
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"Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
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"The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire."
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"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
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"In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories."
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"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news."
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"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder."
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"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."
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"I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit."
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