"In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news."

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

John Hockenberry

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #News Quotes

“That's an L, as in love, and I love you more than I'll ever be able to tell you with words. I want to tell you in other ways. In the way I kiss you. In the way I touch you. In the way I hold you. Won't you let me say it my way, just once? - Swift to Amy”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.124, Penguin
“It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.”
“GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.”
“We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.”
“It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.”
“I believe that every person is born with talent.”
“If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?”

Source : B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.145, Vintage
“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”

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