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Quotes by Journalist
"I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almost any experimentation or idea, where you have to evaluate it, maybe our time has come. In the context of the real world, not just the American world but all around, we haven't done too well. We are not a very good advertisement for the idea we represented. If you lose one wheel of the car, you might be able to get to the side of the road, and some freaks can make it on two, but if you lose three, man, you're in serious trouble. I think we've lost three."
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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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"Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self."
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"A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see."
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"There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M."
Body,
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"The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters."
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"This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody."
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"Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth."
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"But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five."
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
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"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."
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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."
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"My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals."
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"You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go."
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"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."
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"Loneliness is the ultimate poverty."
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"More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators."
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"For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak."
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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?"
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"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."
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"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners."
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"If you're going to America, bring your own food."
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"This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood."
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"George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters."
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"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone."
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"Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood."
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"I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television."
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"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."
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"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
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"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."
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"Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time."
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"World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century."
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"I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience."
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"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."
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"The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere."
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"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."
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"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."
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"It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad."
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"I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you."
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"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."
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"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers."
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"In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter."
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