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Quotes by Publisher
"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality."
18
"I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place."
18
"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route."
18
"The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations."
17
"I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening."
17
"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
Old,
17
"I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior."
17
"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal."
17
"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"
17
"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."
17
"What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples."
17
"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."
17
"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."
16
"Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved."
16
"In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe."
16
"If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time."
Time,
16
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
16
"I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away."
16
"The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people."
16
"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak."
15
"You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do."
15
"A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage."
15
"To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death."
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