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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I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
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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.
