Walter Isaacson Quotes

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.

Walter Isaacson

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I got lucky and got assigned to Hubble.

John M. Grunsfeld

LuckyGotHubbleAssigned

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Robert Moses

ComedyYouMayorGoingIdolElect

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.

Matthew Perry

FunnyMeWritingSaidRemembering

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.

Matt Haig

PeopleFlyRoyalAir ForceAirJust

The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being.

John Shelby Spong

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I like to keep people guessing.

Amanda Seyfried

PeopleGuessingKeepLike

I'll never forget my friends and where I came from.

Romario

FriendsNever ForgetForgetNever

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

Jordan Peele

LifeLoveChildMeNightDemons

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

Don McLean

LifeMeWorldMeanOverBeen

Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

Dick Costolo

ActionYouMeanOverHeroesSee

If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.

Douglas Coupland

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Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.

Condoleezza Rice

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