Herbert Bayard Swope Quotes

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 5, 1882 - June 20, 1958

Topics

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I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome - an outreach program, Voices Unheard. I was a messenger for a couple of months.

Sufe Bradshaw

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When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

Robert De Niro

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We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.

Maryanne Wolf

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I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

Miley Cyrus

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In my way of thinking, the world was my oyster, and there were thousands of products that could be developed.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

Diane Lane

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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

Dick Cavett

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I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

Cornelia Parker

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.

Anurag Kashyap

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With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

Annie Jacobsen

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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Wislawa Szymborska

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