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I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.
What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.
An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.
As a bald man who happens to play golf, or a golfer who happens to be bald, I'll never know the pleasures of a golf visor.
I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.
Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.
Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.
Donald Trump became seen as a credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at odds with reality.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.
Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track
I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.
[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.
Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.
There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.
It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.
Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.
There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.
The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.