Deborah Copaken Kogan Quotes
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.
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And it's the same when there's a war on: it's the men who go to fightWomen and children are civilians, when they're killed it's not rightMen kill men in uniform, its the way war goesWhen they run they're cowards, when they stay they are heroes.
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In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.
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I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.
