Quotes by Serge Schmemann - Page 1

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.
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Fuel
Lesson
Raise
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The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
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Art
Book
Information
Lines
Reading
Between
Old
Manipulated
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Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
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Complaining
Soccer
Spoiled
Want
Complains
Louder
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Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.
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Paper
Check
Daily
Press
Regularly
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What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
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Car
Bike
Done
Paris
Transportation
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In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.
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Blue
Circles
Leader
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Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.
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Corners
Metro
Obscure
Routes
Runs
Tires
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I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good.
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Obvious
Pride
Turf
Unique
Rival
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Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
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Sports
Passion
Soccer
Variety
World Cup
Competitive
Cup
Event
Passions
Styles
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There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.
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Journalism
Subjects
Bet
Roads
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Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
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Articles
People
Stories
Trying
People Way Know
Background
Newspaper
Reporting
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Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.
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Car
Expensive
Fuel
Gasoline
Petite
People New More
Twice
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Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
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Balance
Courtesy
Daily Life
Filled
Headphones
Silence
Bank
Ring
Daily
Electronic
Pianos
Telephone
Tones
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Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
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Axes
Back When
Evil
Humiliated
Identifying
Injured
Insulted
Axis
Borrow
Bush
George
George W
George W. Bush
List
Struck
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Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.
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Car
Buyers
Mundane
Premium
Time Money World
Exhaust
Filter
Car Time Money
High-End
Manufacturers
Note
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My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends.
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Berlin
Dinner
Dinner Table
Germany
Moscow
Reunited
Soviet
Soviet Union
Collapsed
Union
Schools
Table
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A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.
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History
Balkans
Competing
East
Humiliation
Insult
Middle
Middle East
Narrative
Regions
Terror
Acts
Behind
Conflicts
Insults
Lurks
Narratives
Perceived
Sustain
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Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind buying a BMW recording and installing it in my '96 Jeep Cherokee.
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Bmw
Buying
Cherokee
Deliberate
Concert
Engine
Installing
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We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.
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Applause
Decades
Doors
Effects
Laughter
Breaking
Canned
Glass
Slamming
Tires
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Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.
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Soccer
Football Me Know
Explain
Football Me School
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The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.
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Berlin
Berlin Wall
Communism
Continuation
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Emerging
Events
Notion
Presenting
Wall
War History Me
Appealed
Cover
Reporter
Sequel
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Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions.
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Avoiding
Clean
Direct
Prose
Reporter
Largely
Young People
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