"For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit."

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Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

Josh Marshall

#Quitting Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.”
“I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing”
“I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time”
“No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge.”
“Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.”
“Old people are often impatient, but for what?”
“The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.”

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