Joe Klein Quotes
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
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I always played to win.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
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I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to be abundant fossil sites, but there is also a lot of natural knowledge embedded in those myths, showing that Greek perceptions about fossils were pretty amazing for prescientific people.
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.
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For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
