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Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.
There is a strong sense of understanding, appreciation, shared responsibility, and trust that unites and motivates the team to work together.
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.
When I talk to people about 'KnowMore', it is as an experiment. The biggest thing I'll say there is that we've learned a lot from 'KnowMore'.
I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.
A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
If you've ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that you've dressed an African.
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.
Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.
Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.
Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.
If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.
As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.
I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.
Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.
I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.
I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.
Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.
There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.
A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.
All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.
The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.
I am honored to have this role [of the moderator], but this evening belongs to the candidates and, just as important, to the American people.
A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'