Michael On
Michael On
great life time view
It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life.
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There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.
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The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.
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Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.
answer both journalist
I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.
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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.
felt written
'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.
broke twitter
I've been going on Twitter every week going, 'Guys, you have to watch '2 Broke Girls' because it's incredible.
consciousness people
The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.
people playing
You can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15.
since tendency
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.