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War makes strange bedfellows. Helen Thomas
War Strange Makes Bedfellows
I don't think a tough question is disrespectful. Helen Thomas
Tough Think Question Disrespectful
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. Helen Thomas
Democracy You Gun Through Spread Barrel
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. Helen Thomas
People Think Once Presidents Nixon Seem More Could Had Longer Govern Covered Decided Convince Persuade Should Who Tolerant Tolerate Now Credibility Two
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king. Helen Thomas
King Society President Otherwise Our Only Could He Institution Make Him Question Accountable Regular Regular Basis Basis
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
World Somewhere Every Dilemma Epigram
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds. Herb Caen
Day Crazy People Odds City Somehow Small Step Make Terrible Concrete End Jungle Against Each Each Day Whose
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. Herb Caen
Conflict Opportunity Mind State Marketplace City Clash Ideas Opinions Traded Truths Taste May Where Eternal Produce
If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love. Hoda Kotb
Sad Love Family You Eyes Treat Try Cancer Extra Member Like Look Always Friend Did Family Member Just Little Breast Cancer Show Her
I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's gotten to the point where if I throw a cookie in the garbage, I have to douse it in Cascade. Otherwise, why wouldn't I take it out and eat it? Hoda Kotb
Sweet Garbage Otherwise Tooth Out Eat Horrible Cascade Point Throw Take Gotten Where Sweet Tooth Cookie Why
Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me. Hoda Kotb
Me Sometimes Big Control Too Way Bit Out Kind About Weird Weird Thing Check Sort Self-Preservation Where Little Little Bit Thing Things
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. Hunter S. Thompson
Fool Victory Starts Careless Taking Like Gambler Granted Who
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. Hunter S. Thompson
Life Natural Addict Addicted Birth Way Born More Life-Long Fact Habitual Learned Because Am Domination Than Just In Fact Fan Natural Way Serious Early Kentucky Basketball
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Hunter S. Thompson
Morning Every Pants Nixon Crooked He Him His Screw Help Servants Needed
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. Hunter S. Thompson
Death Losing Fans Nothing Addict Else Worse Nixon Bad Hated Some Both Football He Days Him Loser Were Mattered Than Why Enjoyed
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. Hunter S. Thompson
Generation Rest Ali Saw See Entirely Lifetime He Between Likely Always Came Close Anybody Difference Doomed Us Muhammad Muhammad Ali Conquer
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. Hunter S. Thompson
Men President Monument Run Only Could Understood George Truly America Human Race Century Human Race Twentieth Twentieth Century
The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer. I. F. Stone
God Job Give Only Computer Him The Only Thing Thing
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person. Ira Glass
You Feeling Feel Talking Person Listen Really Radio Presence
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world. Ira Glass
Good You Heart Experience World Somebody Else Everything Would Conspires Would-Be See About Someone Take Taking Like Talking Because Understand Making Hear Them Radio
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking. Ira Glass
You Fight Wonderful Sometimes Thought Practice Other Imitate Everyone Collaborate Collaborators Bad Would Something Writer Writers Picking Suppose Forces Understand Opinions Were Artistic Different Who Agree Why
Some defeats are only installments to victory. Jacob Riis
Victory Some Only Defeats
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob Riis
Humor Sense Live Think Saving More
The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers. Jacob Weisberg
Time Good Writing Email Out Haste Web Direct General More Print Readers Witty Opposed Passivity Reflects Efficient Personal Urgent Engagement Your Waste Grows Tone
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption. Jacob Weisberg
Corruption Witness Greedy Other Insider Only Could Shameless He Taking Trading Ambitious Endanger Where Which Forms Racket Bribe Toils Exposure Creatively Shrinks Mundane
The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team. Jake Tapper
Cheating Fact Investigations Cheat Just Established Patriots Team
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