Peter Jennings Quotes
I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
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Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
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I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
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I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
