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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."
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"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."
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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
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"But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love."
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"The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day."
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"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."
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"No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too."
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"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."
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"If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good."
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"I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality."
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"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
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"But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
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"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."
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"She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood."
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"American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free."
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"The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment."
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"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology."
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"I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return."
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"They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter."
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"This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason."
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"The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example."
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"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."
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"I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions."
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"The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules."
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"The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas."
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"I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."
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"We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means."
Will,
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"To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue."
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"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."
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"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
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"A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination."
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"When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits."
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"I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean."
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"We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation."
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"My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down."
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"Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared."
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"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."
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"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy."
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"There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday."
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"I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years."
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"The world gels better every day - then worse again in the evening."
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