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Quotes by Journalist
"Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head."
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
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"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
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"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."
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"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
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"I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?"
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"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."
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"I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges."
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"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."
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"What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right."
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"Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist."
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"All adventure is now reactionary."
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"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."
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"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool."
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"How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!"
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"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
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"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."
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"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
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"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
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"Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound."
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"If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income."
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"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
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"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."
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"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."
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"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."
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"I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things."
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"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
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"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."
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"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
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"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."
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"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
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"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
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"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury."
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"From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself."
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"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone."
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"Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."
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"You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy."
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"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
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"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."
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"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it."
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"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
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"When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need."
Want,
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