Columnists Quotes

• As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

  Margaret Carlson

  Block, Joy, Half

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• Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

  Allan Sloan

  Thinking, Reporters, Reports

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• Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Matter, Meat, Transformation

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

  Allan Sloan

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, Littles, Interviews

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• Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

  Allan Sloan

  Way, Source, Interest

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• It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Writing, Gossip

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

  Max Lerner

  Dream, Politician

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• Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

  Allan Sloan

  Teamwork, Isolation, Teamwork And Love

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• Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Want, Way

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

  Gloria Swanson

  Gossip, Concerned, Industry

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• The best proof of love is trust.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  "Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul : 101 Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter" by Jack Canfield, (p. 25), 2001.

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• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Home, Names

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• The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

  Eric Sevareid

  Media, Earth, Clubs

  Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”

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• I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hypocrite, People, Tolerance

  "Christopher Hitchens: 'You have to choose your future regrets'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

  Aberjhani

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

  Mike Royko

  Helping Others, Hands, Giving

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2954, Agate Digital

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• What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Work, Job Well Done

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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

  Tom Bodett

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Tom Bodett (1985). “As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road : Comments and Comic Pieces”, Perseus Books

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• If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

  Joseph Sobran

  Funny, Government, Political

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  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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• Always choose attitude over experience. Always.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Attitude, Choices

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2016

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• Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

  Mitch Albom

  Bible, Jesus, Future

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.148, Hachette UK

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