Harold Evans Quotes
I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn't regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.
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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
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The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!
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With few words, one can speak the truth.
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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Bump in my hoopty hoopty hoop. I own that. And I aint payin my rent this month. I owe that.
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So many people, so few poets.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.
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I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn't regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.
