"Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work."

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Source : "The Brit dishing the dirt on America" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

Nick Denton

#Interesting Quotes #Bars Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I've got a good family to support me, so I'm grounded in that way.”
“The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias”

Source : John Derbyshire (2009). “We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism”, p.154, Crown Forum
“Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.”
“Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.”
“We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.”
“Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again”
“[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that time, they have prosecuted seven people and put three of them in prison. You know, the President has entertained more felons than that at fundraising coffees in the White House, for Pete's sake.”
“You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.”

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