James Reston Quotes
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
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We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
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The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
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General Clark walked the campus like a retired deity and ignored the general run of cadets.
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Many days later another caravan was passing and a man saw something on top of the highest dune there. And when they went up to see, they found Outka, Mimouna and Aicha; they were still there, lying the same way as when they had gone to sleep. And all three of the glasses... were full of sand. That was how they had their tea in the Sahara.
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A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.
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No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
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I work hard, but in spurts.
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We must prepare young people for a brain-centered economy whose one constant is rapid change. The predominant classroom model a single teacher lecturing to 20, 30, or even more students reflects the production-line model of the Industrial Age, not the technological demands of our Information Age.
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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
