Journal Quotes - Page 10

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

  Neal Boortz

  Atlanta, Political, Georgia

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• In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

  Jim Ryun

  Wall, Economic, Said

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• I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

  Michael Connelly

  Beach, Real, Serial Killer

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• I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important

  Judy Collins

  Memories, Writing, Careers

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• To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

  Claire Messud

  America, Intellectual, Mind

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• A diary means yes indeed.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Diaries, Literature

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• I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

  Alice Walker

  Years, People, Who Cares

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• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  Jean M. Auel

  Romance, Fiction, Magazines

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• First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it.

  Jeff Kinney

  Mom, Diaries, Firsts

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

  Alice Cooper

  Stars, Reading, Sleep

  "Rock is on a roll with politics" by Warren Kinsella, September 12, 2004.

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• If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

  Franz Kafka

  Notes, Ifs

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• The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Bored, Simplicity

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, books.google.ru. November 10, 2011.

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• I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

  Anais Nin

  Regret, Silence, Ease

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• There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

  Jessica Simpson

  Writing, Relax, Certain

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• I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Should, Articles

  Twitter post from Oct 1, 2012

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• Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Giving, Interesting, Advice

  Rosamond Lehmann (2012). “Invitation To The Waltz”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  J. K. Rowling

  Two, Week, Two Weeks

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• My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state

  Jim Garrison

  Country, Book, Law

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• Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.

  Martina Navratilova

  Important, Way, Helping

  Martina Navratilova (2007). “Shape Your Self: My 6-Step Diet and Fitness Plan to Achieve the Best Shape of Your Life”, p.21, Rodale

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• As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Wall, Men

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• Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

  Sumner Redstone

  Wall, Competition, Too Much

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• Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The
  Labs.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Labs, Rooms, Linux

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• Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

  Pearl Cleage

  Writing, Discipline, Paper

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• A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

  Henri Michaux

  Men, Together, Stones

  Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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• I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Dna, Data, Ideas

  "No Secrets" by Raffi Khatchadourian, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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