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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I don't eat any red meat.
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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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To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
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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.
