Joe Klein Quotes
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.
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I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.
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I have always admired the way women put outfits together.
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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Work hard.
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We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect.
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I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn’t have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.
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I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research-I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories...
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Liberty, n. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write.
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Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.
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My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.
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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
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We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
