Joe Klein Quotes
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
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I would love to be a role model.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
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Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.
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At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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Normal people should be able to run for office.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.
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Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
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I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
