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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."
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"People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there."
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"I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward."
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"If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you."
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"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."
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"A lot people I know - it drives them crazy when they're watching, to see the people with their signs and waving, but there's something that's very inclusive about it."
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"The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
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"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."
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"I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes."
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"Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened."
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"After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat."
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"David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph."
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"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."
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"I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers."
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"Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not."
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"And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with."
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"Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way."
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"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."
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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men."
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"Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease."
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"I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life."
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"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."
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"I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think."
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"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets."
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"Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative."
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"There are no friends at cards or world politics."
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
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"Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake."
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"Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat."
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"The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team."
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"Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time."
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"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."
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"Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain."
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"Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them."
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"It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere."
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"The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable."
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"The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice."
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"It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point."
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"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."
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"Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions."
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"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."
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"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."
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"Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research."
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"Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family."
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