Quotes with newspapers

  • In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
  • I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
  • Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
  • Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
  • Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
  • There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
  • Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
  • If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Bryson A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur Rock And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.'
    Democracy the best revenge, says Bilawal, Dawn (Internet). December 31, 2007/Zilhaj 20, 1428.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Norman Mailer Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bobbi Brown Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Barry Schwartz Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bill Keller For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Napoleon Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Malcolm X If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ben Katchor In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Agnes Smedley In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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