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She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.
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Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.
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People
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Want
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I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
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Advertisements
School
School System
Very Good
Advertisement
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The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
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News
Television
Terrified
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Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
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Believe
Cities
Filled
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Washington
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Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
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Anchors
Cameras
Matter
Sitting
Anchor
Pretty
Camera
Front
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
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Happiness
Inspirational
Motivational
Positive
Success
Bricks
Firm
Foundation
Successful
Successful Man
Thrown
Man
Who
Him
Lay
Others
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
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Keeping Promises
Mean
Moon
Promise
Candidate
Convention
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Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.
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Home
Travel
Strong
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In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
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Female
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
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Emphasis
Function
News
Sarcasm
Sarcastic
Tv News
Tv
Performs
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We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.
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Democracy
Political
Years
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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
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Politics
Absolute Power
Journalism
Political
Absolute
Politicians
Numerous
Press
Seized
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People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.
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Facts
Fantastic
Illusion
People
Perspective
Time World People
Happening
In Fact
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In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.
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By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.
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Years
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Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
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Men
Laughter
Successful
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Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.
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