Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
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The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.Harry Reasoner
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Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn . . . then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.
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