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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
Henry Anatole Grunwald Media quotes
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"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
Wilson Mizner Media quotes
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"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
Albert Camus Media quotes
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"Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
Henry Steele Commager Media quotes
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"When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time.""
Stephen King Media quotes
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"Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them."
Kwame Nkrumah Media quotes
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"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
Samuel Adams Media quotes
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"Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men."
Marcus Garvey Media quotes
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"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something."
African proverb Media quotes
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"The reason two antelope walk together is so that one can blow the dust out of the eyes of the other."
African proverb Media quotes
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"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow..."
Lawrence Clark Powell Media quotes
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"The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered."
Joey Skaggs Media quotes
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"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."
Kingman Brewster Media quotes
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"Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture."
Allen Ginsberg Media quotes
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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
Joseph Pulitzer Media quotes
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"There's an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it's self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It's not a tool to understand myself."
Michael Pollan Media quotes
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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
George Bernard Shaw Media quotes
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"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."
Geoffrey Fisher Media quotes
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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
W. H. Auden Media quotes
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"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
Bruce Jackson Media quotes
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"Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence."
John Lahr Media quotes
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"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
Herbert Gold Media quotes
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"And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is."
Paul Auster Media quotes
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"In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen."
Thierry Henry Media quotes
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"Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Media quotes
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"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
Rita Mae Brown Media quotes
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"In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder."
John Masefield Media quotes
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"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."
Freda Adler Media quotes
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"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day."
Orison Swett Marden Media quotes
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"Language can be abstracted, language can be used as a very beautiful code in poetry, the nuances and the multiple meanings of things, it has a music to it. It has so many things in it. It is also reduced from prose and therefore can be both mathematical, or very, very abstract."
Jim Jarmusch Media quotes
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