"David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying that he did journalism for the same reason the great Julius Irving did basketball: He loved doing it even when he was having a bad day."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Jonathan Yardley

#Basketball Quotes #Bad Day Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices.”
“I started treating my career as if it was a guarantee,if things get difficult and things don't work out, I'm not gonna think I have a Plan B, which is grad school, or Plan C, which is an office job. I'm just gonna have a Plan A, a Plan A 2.0, a Plan A 3.0, and that's what I'm going to do. Because entertainment and YouTube are always going to be my Plan A.”
“A sound body keeps a sound mind.”

Source : "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin' Joe Frazier" by Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.
“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
“For better to come, good must stand aside.”
“... governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ...”
“We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.”
“More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.”

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