James Reston Quotes
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
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When I was little, we used to have Atari.
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I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.
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His David Garrick's death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
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Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
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I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.
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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
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Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
