"I have never understood the Iowa caucus."
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"I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening."
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"i never learned anything while i was talking."
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"I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam."
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"There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish."
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"The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business."
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"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."
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"You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them."
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"Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right."
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"Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively."
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"People would pay money to work at CNN"
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"You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer."
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"What you want in an interview is four things: You want someone who can explain what they do very well, who can have a sense of humor and hopefully is self - deprecating, who has a bit of a chip on their shoulder, and passion. If you have passion, a chip on the shoulder, a sense of humor, and you can explain what you do very well, it doesn't matter if you're a plumber or a singer or a politician. If you have those four things, you are interesting."
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"The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity."
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"When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why."
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"The first rule of my speaking is: listen!"
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"...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values."
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"If you do something, expect consequences"
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"Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain."
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"Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two."
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