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Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?
I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.
The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.
I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.
I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.
I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain.
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.
How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.
I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'
Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
I've been told I'm a good guest. I don't take up much space, I don't eat a lot, and I keep my complaints to a minimum.
I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.
My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.
The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.
There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.