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I'm grateful for the people who watch everyday because if the viewers don't tune in, I don't have a job and I know that.
I lived on Nantucket in college during the summer and have spent a lot of time there since. It's a special place for me.
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.
The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
As the evidence has shown, the cases of voter fraud across the country are statistically minimal if you go back decades.
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.
If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.
I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.
I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.
Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.
Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
Always remember no matter how many people say no, all you need to find is one single person to say yes. Just one person.
A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.