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I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.
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Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.
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A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news.
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Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so decisive, and information about it so carefully managed, that the American public was never clearly informed that it was purchased at the price of approximately 100,000 Iraqi lives.
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I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.
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I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
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The problem is whereas there are thousands of people working on the prop desks of investment banks in equities and bonds, you're talking about a very small fraction of the people doing that in commodities.
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There are other ways of achieving the savings, and that's through negotiation.
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There are times where you have an unconscious (person), and we don't know if it's stroke-related, if it's cardiac-related or if it's any medical condition, ... It's hard to figure out what the prognosis is.
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There are two issues here. The heart of the settlement is the $14-21 million the city has agreed to pay to stop future problems along the highway. There's an additional $300,000 expenditure in the settlement to clean up areas already harmed by the sediment drainage. We think the Forest Service should help cover these costs.
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We want to make sure that this evidence ... is preserved in such a way that NASA can come in afterward and find out what caused this tragedy.
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We want to make sure the first time someone straps on a football helmet isn't in August of their freshman year. We've had some youth programming, but it's been piecemeal. With the new plan, we're trying to coordinate this.
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When these companies begin shipping products, they don't see the need to buy new tools beyond what they already have for R&D.
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When the source is a story. That's a softball question.