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Quotes by Journalist
"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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"A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town."
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"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources."
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"Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking."
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"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."
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"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."
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"A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results."
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"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."
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"The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place."
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"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
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"I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century."
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"They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?"
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"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."
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"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."
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"I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces."
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"Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability."
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"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
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"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
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"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."
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"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."
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"The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose."
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"Playing golf is like learning a foreign language."
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"This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb."
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"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of."
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"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
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"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
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"Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion-often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation-that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter."
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"I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people."
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"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country."
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"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it."
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"There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary."
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"Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping."
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"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."
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"It is increasingly important to be open-minded."
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"In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market."
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"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass."
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"Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead."
Dogs,
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"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
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"The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see."
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"We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves."
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"In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen."
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"The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it."
War,
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
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"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
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"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
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