Myrna Loy (Myrna Adele Williams) Quotes
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
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Max Askeli started this very good magazine The Reporter. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.
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Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
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The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
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The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
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We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
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We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.
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There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
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In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.
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We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
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There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I got rid of all those reporters.
