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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
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"After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper."
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"True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance."
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"No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying."
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"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children."
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"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."
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"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?"
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"I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters."
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"The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me."
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"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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"Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel."
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"That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati."
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"Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen."
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"They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach."
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"We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."
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"Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist."
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"It never got weird enough for me."
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"The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes."
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"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
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"I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio."
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"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
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"Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form."
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"It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood."
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"I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly."
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"Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it."
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"A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins."
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"It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day."
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"The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes."
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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
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"It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins."
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"I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion."
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"My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way."
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"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."
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"News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy."
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"Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side."
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"There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat."
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"I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance."
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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."
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"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."
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"In a world where you can get a spare kidney, a black-market Picasso or a ticket to ride into space, why can't I see some actual sex? Some actual fucking from people who want to fuck each other? Some chick in an outfit I halfway respect, having the time of her life? I have MONEY. I'm willing to PAY for this. I AM NOW A 35-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, AND I JUST WANT A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR INTERNATIONAL PORN INDUSTRY WHERE I CAN SEE A WOMAN COME. I just want to see a good time."
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"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
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"Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping."
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