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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal."
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"The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again."
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"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."
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"Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents."
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"History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton."
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"I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere."
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"I think we're glazing eyes all across America."
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"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about."
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"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better."
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"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men."
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"It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do."
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"I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves."
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"We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap."
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"The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance."
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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
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"A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered."
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"It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent."
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"The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things."
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"And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up."
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"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you."
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"A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes."
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"You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago."
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"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."
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"I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think."
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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
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"We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success."
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"Between 60 and 80 percent of strippers come from a background of sexual abuse."
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"I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent."
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"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that."
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"The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock."
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"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."
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"This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism."
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"This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded."
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"It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort."
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"Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
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"The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship."
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"Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control."
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"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break."
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"A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer."
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"The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age."
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"It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle."
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"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
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"I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you."
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"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."
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