"The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore."

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Source : "MSM Requiem" by Peggy Noonan, www.wsj.com. January 13, 2005.

Peggy Noonan

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“There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.”
“Italians have no sense of the dramatic.”
“Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured.”
“I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.”
“Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it's not supposed to melt, and everything's changing - the world is changing - and it's all because of global warming, I think.”
“Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.”
“I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?”
“I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.”

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