"As a journalist, the details always tell the story."

-- James McBride

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“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
“There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.”
“For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.”
“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.”
“If your words're true, they're armed.”
“Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.”
“In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.”

Source : "The Mother Jones Interview: John Hockenberry" by Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1999.
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