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The cavemen are still in charge at the networks. They're all white males, and you can't get away from that.
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.
I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
I think it's my job to walk my beat and find the people I cover who have questions that should be answered.
Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.
In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.
A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.
Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
I've chosen not to go to Sky or ITV because the programmes I've made at the BBC, I want to carry on making.
I don't go into the newsroom and people start salivating. I can't think of anything further from the truth.
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.
A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.