"Writers and reporters need to remind themselves they're not to be judged solely by the number of clicks or eyeballs on a given story, but there is this other value and this other important mission, and the key is balancing the two so that you stay alive long enough, whether you're an individual writer or whether you're a whole news organization, to keep doing what you're doing but that you don't get so driven by that that you forget that what you're supposed to be doing in a higher sense is informing people, is elevating the debate and not lowering it."

Source : Source: to.pbs.org

Frank Bruni

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'”
“I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.”
“What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.”
“This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency...Enabling this year's symposium to become a venue where we can reflect on the stories and ideas that no one usually gets the opportunity to tell.' So I stand here with the guts to ask you, please, let's do something. Let's do something and feed those that we're not reaching collectively.”
“Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.”
“Love comes unseen; we only see it go.”
“I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.”

Source : "Q & A With Homeland's Abu Nazir: Navid Negahban on Israeli and Persian Cuisine, Looking for Hummus in L.A., Shimon Peres' Facebook Page + Getting Detained by the Real Guys". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 25, 2012.
“Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn”

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