"David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Jonathan Yardley

#Powerful Quotes #Real Quotes #Self Quotes

“Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion....For that to happen in one's lifetime is so improbable. I got Floyd Patterson, then, here, at the age of 76, I was fortunate to come in contact with this young man who has, in my opinion, all the requirements to be a champion that I believe he's going to be, maybe the best that ever lived.”
“It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.”
“The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.”
“It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.”
“Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,--he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives.... Wise--deluded man!”
“The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of culture's hybridity. It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of our selves.”
“It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.”

Source : "Gloria and Emilio Estefan Have Rhythm — and Lots of Romance". Interview with Alanna Nash, www.aarp.org. August, 2013.
“I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.”

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