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Quotes by Journalist
"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."
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"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass."
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"Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist."
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"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth"."
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"I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not."
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"I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages."
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"I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali."
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"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."
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"The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg."
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"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens."
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"TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch."
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"But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home."
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"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."
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"Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances."
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"I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue."
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"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
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"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it."
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"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon."
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"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
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"I'm covering the worst president in American history."
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"TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air."
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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
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"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty."
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"The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy."
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"It's getting the right person that's the challenge."
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"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"
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"Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred."
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"I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back."
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"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."
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"Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each."
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"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."
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"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be."
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"I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test."
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
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"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."
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"Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head."
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"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."
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"Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived."
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"Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar."
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"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
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"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well."
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"I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not."
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"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
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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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"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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