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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"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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"The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art."
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"As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school."
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"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."
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"But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it."
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"We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up."
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"A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in."
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"As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book."
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"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."
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"If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry."
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"There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end."
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"In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time."
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"So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future."
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"I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back."
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"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."
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"The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage."
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"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
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"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."
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"People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant."
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"I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation."
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"And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish."
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"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."
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"Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country."
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"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
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"Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources."
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"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
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"I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't."
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"I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not."
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"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government."
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"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."
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"I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself."
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"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
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"There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear."
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"Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free."
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"I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up."
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"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."
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"A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig."
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"A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything."
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"Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe."
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"I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order."
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"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
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"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
Life,
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