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Quotes by Journalist
"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
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"And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion."
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"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
"I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years."
"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen."
"I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper."
"The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day."
"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."
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"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book."
"As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book."
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
"Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt."
"I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran."
"To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes."
"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."
"There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know."
"I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch."
"It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics."
"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."
"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
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"There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers."
"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another."
"Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk."
"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
"I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio."
"This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."
"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."
"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?"
"Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics."
"We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved."
"I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion."
"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."
"They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun."
"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."
"Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy."
"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
"I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat."
"Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number."
"Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."
"If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail."
"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed."
"The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced."
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