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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood."
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"It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw."
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"Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service."
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"I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed."
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"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get."
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"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."
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"So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time."
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"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
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"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."
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"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."
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"Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament."
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"Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century."
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"I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section."
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"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
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"Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do."
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"I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory."
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"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
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"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."
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"This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security."
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"One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it."
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"In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously."
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"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."
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"At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House."
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"Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood."
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"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."
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"It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about."
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"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"
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"They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world."
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"Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes."
Time,
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"A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics."
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"Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment."
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"When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans."
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"Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring."
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"You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst."
Rain,
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"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."
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"Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in."
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"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."
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"Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk."
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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
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"Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads."
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"In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers -- dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years."
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"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."
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"I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people."
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"There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears."
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