"Even if you're trying to remain objective, even if you're trying not to mount any campaigns or endorse anything, when you cover an issue you are at least encouraging people to think about all the possibilities and if you're not covering political reform, electoral reform, you can write stories about them that don't say we must do this but just educate people on the fact that there are various advocates who are tugging us in that direction, that can present the arguments of those advocates, and I do think that's an issue we for some reason completely turned away from."

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Source : Source: to.pbs.org

Frank Bruni

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.”
“It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.”

Source : "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.
“After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.”
“The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.”
“Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.”
“Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.”
“I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.”
“The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.”

Source : Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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