Theodore White
Theodore White
Theodore Harold Whitewas an American political journalist and historian, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 May 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.
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His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
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I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
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He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.
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Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.
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The world is beautiful if you are beautiful.
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Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
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The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
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I class myself as a manual laborer.
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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
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Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile....
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America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.
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The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.