Bill Kurtis Quotes

With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.

Bill Kurtis

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I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

Andrew Motion

BalanceMindThoughtDoingYouSide

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

Ann Voskamp

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Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Tracey Emin

WomenAscendCareersLaterPlateau

I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon, I mix a little bit of all the seeds I can find. I love quinoa. It's great - it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Clotilde Hesme

LoveHomeMorningGreatI AmSeeds

Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes.

Chrystia Freeland

Social MediaMediaNowAuthoritarian

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

Brian Mulroney

MoneyGovernmentMake It HappenOur

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

Anthony Browne

LifeAgeChildrenPictureImportant

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

Alison Gopnik

BestWayExperimentDiscoverFactor

Man lives for science as well as bread.

William James

ScienceManBreadWellLives

I judge myself severely.

Sylvie Guillem

MyselfJudge

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

Peter MacKay

HomeTimeLovedFeelGuiltyAway

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Peter Singer

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