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A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
I'm a collaborative person - it makes me better - and sometimes taking that collaboration to Twitter is helpful.
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
If you'd asked me a few years ago about debt settlement companies, I probably would have told you to avoid them.
There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'
Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.
Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96
The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.
The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.
I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever.
I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
The biggest frontier opens up in front of us and rather than be afraid of it, we should go forward with courage.
Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.
Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.
Even if [Donald] Trump concedes, some of his supporters have promised to take up arms against [Hillary] Clinton.
... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.
'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?
We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.
The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.
Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.
A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.