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Quotes by Journalist
"In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter."
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"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."
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"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone."
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"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
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"Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes."
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"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business."
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"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."
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"Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live."
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"The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number."
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"When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?"
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"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."
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"I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight."
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"Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?"
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium."
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"Just resolve to shine, constantly and steadily, like a warm lamp in the corner, and people will want to move towards you in order to feel happy, and to read things more clearly. You will be bright and constant in a world of dark and flux, and this will save you the anxiety of other, ultimately less satisfying things like 'being cool', 'being more successful than everyone else' and 'being very thin'."
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"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."
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"There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize."
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"At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam."
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"In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent."
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"He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it."
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"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before."
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"When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest."
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"If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word."
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"Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions."
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"I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages."
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"I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool."
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"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
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"Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound."
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"Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits."
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"Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."
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"It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either."
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"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."
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"If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously."
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"The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short."
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"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all."
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"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"
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"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind."
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"If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula."
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"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."
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"When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why."
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"One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them."
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"The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later."
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"Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance."
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"I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun."
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"What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic."
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"The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world."
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