Brendan I. Koerner Quotes
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
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When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.
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A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
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If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.
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Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
