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" It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. "
Rupert Murdoch
Long
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" Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. "
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" I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate. "
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" Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business. "
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" Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.' "
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" CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight. "
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" There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard. "
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" No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. "
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" Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. "
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Thought
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" I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way. "
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" You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. "
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Turn
You
" The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. "
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Government
UK
Less
" Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. "
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Many
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" I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. "
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Remembered
Change
I Am
" I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening. "
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Important
Details
Daily
" I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible. "
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Felt
Just
Possible
" I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through. "
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Best
Feel
" In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child. "
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Child
Sports
Society
" I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. "
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Together
Am
Amazed
" I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmitting that information to the cloud. It allows me to track and maintain my health much better. "
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Better
Sleep
Me
" I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. "
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Mother
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" Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. "
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" I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. "
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" I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one. "
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Born
" I think everyone's against abortion. "
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Abortion
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" I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. "
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" Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. "
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" I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. "
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Crazy
Children
Family
" The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products. "
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America
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Service
" ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News. "
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