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Quotes by Journalist
"There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it."
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"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
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"Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere."
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"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
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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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"Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask."
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"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
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"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."
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"Conservation is now a dead word."
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"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."
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"The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity."
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"The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'"
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"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
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"Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science."
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"Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything."
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"If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators."
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"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."
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"Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on."
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"I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community."
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
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"I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck."
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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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"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing."
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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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"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one."
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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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"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."
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"All adventure is now reactionary."
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"In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen."
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"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."
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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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"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."
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"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
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"I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on."
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"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."
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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
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"I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant."
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"I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy."
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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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"I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults."
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"One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives."
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"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married."
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"But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist."
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"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."
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