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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger."
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"I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense."
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"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press."
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"I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused."
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"Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office."
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"I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head."
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"Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business."
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"Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement."
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"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."
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"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
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"For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world."
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"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
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"You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept."
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"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."
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"But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan."
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
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"What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal."
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"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."
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"The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them."
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"Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling."
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"You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life."
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"I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose."
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"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."
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"Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code."
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"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."
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"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed."
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"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
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"A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent."
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"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
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"Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar.""
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"His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married."
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"Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time."
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"Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is."
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"I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points."
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"I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be."
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"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity."
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"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."
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"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."
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