"There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."

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Source : "TELEVISION;Five Years Later, The Gulf War Story Is Still Being Told" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. May 12, 1996.

Christiane Amanpour

#Mean Quotes #Objectivity Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.”
“Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.”
“It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.”
“Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'”
“I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.”
“Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.”
“All of you are aware of the journey I've taken this past year and I just want to relay to all of the people that sent along their prayers and well wishes, my heartfelt thanks. It was truly overwhelming to me and my family the outpouring that we received from the Twin Cities community and from across the Midwest.”

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