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Quotes by Journalist
"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."
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"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
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"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."
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"TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
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"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."
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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."
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"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."
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"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
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"A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."
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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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"I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it."
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"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
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"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."
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"To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill."
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"Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left."
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"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
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"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
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"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
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"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall."
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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
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"Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left."
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"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
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"Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred."
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"We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations."
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"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."
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"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
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"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
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"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
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"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."
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"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."
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"The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848."
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"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
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"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
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"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."
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"Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one."
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"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."
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"Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible."
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
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"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."
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"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself."
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"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."
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