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 sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department, and that's not saying much.
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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 don't want to get into autobiographies, I don't want to talk about myself.
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This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.
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Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.
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I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
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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.
