Joe Klein Quotes
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.
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Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
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Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.
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Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
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We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
