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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"People here don't identify themselves by their sports team."
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"In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point."
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"Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help."
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"Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it."
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"We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know."
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"Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."
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"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."
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"The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army."
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"It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes."
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"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."
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"I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character."
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"There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins."
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"My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30."
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"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."
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"War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters."
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"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
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"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."
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"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."
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"When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it."
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"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
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"If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring."
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"I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out."
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"The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians."
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"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"
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"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."
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"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize."
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"The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck."
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"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."
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"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
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"All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism."
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"American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon."
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"We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see."
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"McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for.Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?"
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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
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"Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America."
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"I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching."
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"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
Fire,
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"It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to."
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"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."
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"The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it."
War,
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"Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?"
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"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."
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