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I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.
I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.
With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.
I wouldn't say that I'm an Italian wine connoisseur. I do like red wine. I guess my favorites now are Bordeauxes. French.
I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.
Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.
If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.
If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.
I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.
Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.
If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.
When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.
The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.
Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.
Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of the home or passes away.
I would just not be surprised if, 10 years from now, there is a Trump golf course at the Bay of Pigs. Just mark my words.
The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.
As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.
When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.