"I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors."

-- Cleveland Amory

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“The assumption was that a calorie is a calorie. Nothing could be further from the truth. The food industry wants you to believe that because it works for them. If a calorie is a calorie, then why would you pick on any individual food stuff?”
“I'm not as anti-sports as I've led people to believe - I've been to a Giants game. I've been to Giants Stadium and I've watched games. I've watched lots of them, you know? I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 2, 2010.
“Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.”
“On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.”
“I said earlier [2015] year that I thought we'd get to 10 or 20 bucks [per barrel ] because that's the marginal cost, and when you're in a price war, it's the marginal cost that determines the price.It is a price war because basically the OPEC reason did not cut production in their November 2014 meeting was that they got tired of cutting production and having American frackers and Russians et cetera grab market share.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign persons against foreign government officials. And the State Department on the one side has got a very consistent and powerful view that U.S. courts should be open to those claims because there needs to be a place in the world where they can be brought. And those human rights norms ought to be real and enforceable, and we ought to be a beacon to the world.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.”
“There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scÃ¨ne, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.”

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