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Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. Lynsey Addario

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. Lynsey Addario

Car Accident Valley Kidnapped Sunni Driver Taliban Occupation Covering Iraq Afghanistan While Pakistan Car Accident Injured Near

My life isn't always at risk, even if I'm in a war zone. A lot of these places have areas of calm, so covering war doesn't necessarily mean being shot at all the time. Lynsey Addario

Life War Time My Life Calm Risk Area Always Covering Lot Being War Zone Places Mean Shot Even Necessarily Zone

I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad. Lynsey Addario

I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there. Lynsey Addario

Me Car First Living Think Else Out About Attacks No-One Weird Became Leave Were Covering Norm Iraq Times Going Realize Actually Bombs Started Cared Basically

I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account. Mark Billingham

Good Business Will Thought Pay Thinking Enough Back Bit Kids Bought Know Make Policy Sure Because Insurance Always Covering Account Die Going Tax Which Inheritance Forward Keep

One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep. Mary Pilon

Health Great Beer Sports Three Wildly Athletes Weeks Cheap Haggard Journalism Performing Deadlines Covering Ironies Snow Reporters Stadium Ice Unhealthy Little Shows NBC Peak Olympics Sleep

The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys. Melissa Rivers

Tough Interviewing Interviews Licking See Fact Contestants Dogs Due Been Covering Lot Grammys Little Themselves Used

In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it - influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates - and despite what they tell themselves, it's impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively. Michael Hastings

Impossible Action Setting Other Despite Framing Press Tell Kind Outcomes Objectively More Both Part Coverage Covering Campaign Than Expectations Report Reporters Reporting Any Candidates Just Influencing Story Themselves

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out. Michael Scott

I defend a woman's right to cover her hair if she chooses, but the face is central to human interaction, and so the ideologues who promote its covering are simply misogynists. Mona Eltahawy

Woman Face Hair Promote Simply She Ideologues Cover Covering Human Interaction Central Chooses Who Her Right Defend

With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime. Nancy Grace

Day Money Somebody Whatever Every Sold Corporation Dime Libya TV Some Shareholders True Making Making Money Covering Covers Iraq Off Story Whether Japan Newspaper Bin

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings. Richard Lamm

Health Technology Care System Out Moral Citizens Would Seduced Health Care Health Care System Buildings Covering Truly Fancy Should Basic Start

Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot. Rider Strong

You People Teen Know Covering Whatnot Maybe Disgusting Bodily Whole

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school. Robert Jay Lifton

Work School Three Become Club Spent Though Kind More Calendar Years Covering Than Did Just Psychiatry Form Interested Then Helped Even Medical Medical School Two University

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. Ron Fournier

News Me Political Big About Writers Had Journalists Talent Leagues Come Ticket Most Mostly Because Covering Clinton Snappy Governor Big Leagues Little Bill Bill Clinton Washington Thinkers

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future. Roone Arledge

Wisdom Future News People Three Be True Think Way Anchor Networks True Covering Same Current Difference Now

The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator. Seth Shostak

Life Time Great Example Enough Earth Has-Been Some Something Catastrophe Over Poles For Example Freeze Oceans Encompass Underwent Been Years Covering Years Ago Ice Span Billion Deep Million Million Years

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right. Simon Cowell

When I was 23, 24, I started covering hedge funds - a lot of this was luck - when no one else did. This was before hedge funds were the prettiest girl in school: this was pre-nose job and treadmill for hedge funds, when nobody talked to them - back then, it was just all about insurance companies and money managers. Stephanie Ruhle

Money School Job Girl Before Luck Else Back Prettiest About No-One Nobody Talked Insurance Insurance Companies Were Covering Lot Did Managers Just Hedge Them Then Companies Treadmill Started Funds

'Rapper's Delight' came from the TV entertainment show 'Good Times,' but when the times called for a shift in the narrative, artists answered, covering brutal truths in their rhymes that were uncomfortable for society to confront. Steve Stoute

I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong. Tom Brokaw

Watergate Unknown Say Pretty Part Wrong Well Because Came Go West Covering Did Hard Washington Started

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