Ben Yagoda Quotes
Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
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It has been more than 60 years since the constitution was put in place. There are provisions in the constitution that no longer suit the times. Since the constitution was promulgated, we've seen the emergence of new values, such as privacy, the environment and so on, which need to be incorporated.
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One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.
