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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

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Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.

Robert Kurson

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In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.

Alvaro Enrigue

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I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.

Alyssa Milano

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Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

Robert Dallek

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I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.

Mike White

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I love entertaining and making people laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

Miranda Cosgrove

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It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

Jason Statham

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Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

Jon Ronson

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It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.

Willie Geist

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If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

Sean Young

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