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 think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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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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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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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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I'm a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.
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I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.
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To create a harmonious inner existence is a positive act with far-reaching effects, and not an act of isolation. To desire peace strongly is to help achieve it.
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To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.
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I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
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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.
