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" So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction. "

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" If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art. "

" When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.' "

" When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that. "

" Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. "

" It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak. "

" The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis. "

" The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton. "

" Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. "

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" In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. "

" I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties. "

" I don't see myself as a Luddite. "

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" I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good. "

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" I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere. "

" I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I? "

" We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people. "

" No great pastry chef has sweet teeth. "

" Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that. "

" I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk. "

" I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life. "

" I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs. "

" Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask. "

" What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? "

" Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. "

" For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line. "

" Killing is the payoff of war. "

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" McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion. "

" I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. "

" I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery. "

" You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. "