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I was fascinated by the fact that in Osaka, we saw people using their cell phones to pay for small goods.
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.
Hurricane Irene's advance coverage was heavy on worst-case scenarios. Thank goodness they didn't pan out.
When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?
Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.
It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.
The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.
There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.
I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.
Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.
Dan Rather had to move over a few inches to make room for me. It was my dream job. And my dream came true.
When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.