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Quotes by Journalist
"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
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"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
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"Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days."
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"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
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"What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news."
News,
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"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."
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"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
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"The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice."
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"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented."
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"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself."
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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
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"To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something."
Hair,
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"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."
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"Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns."
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"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
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"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
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"It is increasingly important to be open-minded."
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"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"
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"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
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"I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed."
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"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
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"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
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"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
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"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
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"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."
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"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it."
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"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
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"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
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"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
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"Never have more children than you have car windows."
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"I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection."
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"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out."
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"It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister."
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"People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure."
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"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
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"Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes."
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"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."
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"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things."
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"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."
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"How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me."
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"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."
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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
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"Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship."
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"All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well."
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"It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?"
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"What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others."
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