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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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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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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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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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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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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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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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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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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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.
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When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.
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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.
