Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

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• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Earth
  • End

• Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

  

  Adam Green
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Doing

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Service
  • Company
  • Website

• Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

  

  Parris Glendening
  • Water
  • Depression
  • Table

• I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

  

  Iman
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Progress

• I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• One thing about 'Thelma & Louise' we can't forget: Brad Pitt. Oh, yes.

  

  Kristan Higgins

• Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lying

• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• A common and usually unfortunate answer is “Write about what you know.” Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination, nothing is quicker to turn on the psyche's censoring devices and distortion systems, than trying to write truthfully.

  

  John Gardner
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Knows

• We know the president of the United States has no facts. No facts to back up his startling allegation that the former president of the United States, President Obama, wiretapped him in Trump Tower during the campaign.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Up
  • Trump
  • President

• I'm kind of in a dark place. And I know some people are actually excited about that, because they think I'll write an album about being sad. But that's not what my music is about. There have been times when I've done that, but I'm not going to do it again.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

  

  Saib Tabrizi
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • Hands

• I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world with it. Romy did all those writing sessions. I would love to do what Romy's done and experience that other side of the pop machine. It sounds terrifying and, at times, a little bit soulless. That's a real pet peeve of mine, when people talk about songwriting in a cynical way. But having said that I still want to do it, just to know what it's like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.

  

  Hamilton Holt
  • America
  • Opinions
  • Press

• A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • Press
  • Cynical
  • Base