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Quotes by Journalist
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
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"On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings."
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"In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence."
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"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
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"I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me."
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"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
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"It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill."
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"We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things."
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"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."
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"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
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"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
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"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private."
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"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
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"I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble."
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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to."
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"So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever."
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"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
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"Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive."
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"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."
Food,
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"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."
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"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
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"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
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"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
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"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
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"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
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"There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back."
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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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"The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused."
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"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
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"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
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"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?""
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"The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage."
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"Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television."
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"It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine."
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"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
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"It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Our Barbie-doll president, with his Barbie-doll wife and his boxful of Barbie-doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us; the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts on nights when the moon comes too close."
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"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile."
Time,
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"When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population."
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"Just resolve to shine, constantly and steadily, like a warm lamp in the corner, and people will want to move towards you in order to feel happy, and to read things more clearly. You will be bright and constant in a world of dark and flux, and this will save you the anxiety of other, ultimately less satisfying things like 'being cool', 'being more successful than everyone else' and 'being very thin'."
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"The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane."
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"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
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"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract."
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"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day."
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"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
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"I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong."
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