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• Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

  Jo Bonner

  Country, Home, Writing

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• Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Moving, Civilization, People

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• And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

  Robert Scheer

  Fire, Voice, People

  "LA Times Fires Longtime Progressive Columnist Robert Scheer". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 14, 2005.

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• This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

  Holly Johnson

  Mean, Hype, Sound

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• The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

  George Jackson

  Reading, Black, Savages

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

  Daniel Okrent

  Writing, People, Choices

  "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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• The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Email, Literature, I Can

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• For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

  Charles Kuralt

  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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• Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.

  Guy Ritchie

  Games, Names, World

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• The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

  Michael Lewis

  Sports, Echoes, World

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

  James L. Barksdale

  Technology, People, Way

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• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Writing, Taking A Break, Dear

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• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  Candace Bushnell

  Party, Europe, Gossip

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• Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

  Dick Cavett

  House, Lines, Rats

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• It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Father, Childhood, Firsts

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Block, Air, Greek

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Fall, Ignorance, Ideas

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• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  Walter Cronkite

  Objectivity, Magazines, Opinion

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• If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

  Dick Schaap

  Thinking, Dollars, Stills

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• Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Heart, Mirrors

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• Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

  Jimmy Breslin

  Writing, Quality, Rage

  1990 In The Times, 9 May

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• It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

  Robert Scheer

  Running, Strong, War

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

  Ethel Merman

  Book, Giving, Gossip

  "Merman: an autobiography".

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• I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.

  Toby Young

  Humorous, Writing, Thinking

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