"I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes."

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Source : "Inside Story: the Wit and Wisdom of Dan Rather". www.independent.co.uk. November 29, 2004.

Dan Rather

#Addiction Quotes #Cracks Quotes #News Quotes

“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.”
“...his gaze met hers. It was crazy. Dressed down in worn blue jeans and a black shirt, he was the most beautiful man sheâ€™d ever seen. And the moment was sort of perfect. Even with the deer head staring over his shoulder like a total creeper.”
“...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.”
“What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?”
“But I don't forget and I don't forgive.”
“You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.”
“Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...”

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