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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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"The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture."
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"All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted."
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"There's hostility to lying, and there should be."
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"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
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"A finished product is one that has already seen its better days."
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"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."
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"While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships."
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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
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"The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins."
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"The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known."
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"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."
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"If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe."
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"He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing."
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"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
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"Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it."
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"Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all."
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"For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority."
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"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?"
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"I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner."
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"When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me."
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"You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff."
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"You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas."
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"Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago."
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"I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency."
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"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."
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"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
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"The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental."
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"Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way."
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"I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously."
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"Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene."
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"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."
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"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children."
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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
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"Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most."
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"My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure."
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"And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program."
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"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."
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"The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good."
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"I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department."
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"First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle."
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"Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel."
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"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."
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"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas."
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