Nicholas Davies (Nick Davies) Quotes
It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.
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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.
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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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90% of the world's data was created in the last two years.
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I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?
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A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"
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You gotta be able to change worlds.
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With Maynard and Gilligan, I had the best of both worlds.
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Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.
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I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.
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There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.
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Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.
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He reacted like I slapped him, and I hated hurting him, but I knew he needed to know. “He doesn’t deserve it. He can have any girl in the world’s love, and he took yours. Someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling.” He stood and started to walk away, but stopped and glanced back at me. “If you were mine, I would never let you go.” He left the kitchen.
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Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.
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Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
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I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
