Adam Clymer Quotes
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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We can't afford not to fully fund education.
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If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
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After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of support for government intervention followed. Under President Ronald Reagan The Funeral Rule was first enacted to protect consumers from deceptive practices, but the rule has yet to put the nail in the coffin.
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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
