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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Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
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Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.
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We're coming closer to a resolution to this, and it will allow us to have 12 games. Ideally, like I've said, we'd like to play our traditional rivals the last game of the season.
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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
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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.
