William Raspberry Quotes
Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.
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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.
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My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.
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An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
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Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had.
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I still love my little home on YouTube, really.
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Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.
