Bill Kovach Quotes
In the 1990s, as it began to feel the impact of cable news and syndicated infotainment programming, network evening newscasts became increasingly focused on tabloid crime and celebrity.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.
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These external regions, what do we fill them with Except reflections
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I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!
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As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.
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I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.
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The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
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I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.
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Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war.
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The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
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I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
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In the 1990s, as it began to feel the impact of cable news and syndicated infotainment programming, network evening newscasts became increasingly focused on tabloid crime and celebrity.
