Alan Rusbridger Quotes
The BBC is almost certainly the best news organisation in the world – the most serious, comprehensive, ethical, accurate, international, wide-ranging, fair and impartial.
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I would like to have my gun for protection.
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I'm innocent. It's a conspiracy by you know who.
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I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
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I am an intelligent drunk because an intelligent drunk carries his liquor with him
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You're never too old to take baby steps.
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The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.
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Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.
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I think that he Michael Jackson did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.
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Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
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I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.
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I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.
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We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state.
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God never places us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear we are so impeded by fretting, petty cares that we are gaining nothing; but when we are not sending any branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. Perhaps in the time of our humiliation, when everything seems a failure, we are making the best kind of progress.
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It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
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The BBC is almost certainly the best news organisation in the world – the most serious, comprehensive, ethical, accurate, international, wide-ranging, fair and impartial.
