Joe McGinniss famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.
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Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.
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With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.
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The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.
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We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.
-- Joe McGinniss
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No one man is superior to the game.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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