Bill Kovach Quotes
News must also be about solving the problems that confront individuals and the community. There are lines between news and advocacy, but helping solve problems is different from advocacy.
Quotes to Explore
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
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I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.
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You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.
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I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.
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Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.
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News must also be about solving the problems that confront individuals and the community. There are lines between news and advocacy, but helping solve problems is different from advocacy.
