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They cut the menu from twenty-five items to nine, featuring hamburgers and cheeseburgers, and they made the burgers a little smaller – ten hamburgers from one pound of meat instead of eight.

He was “more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

To a Westerner the anomaly of this – a man under a life sentence for treason working in a prison on the most secret scientific developments – is almost too much to comprehend. In the Soviet Union it was an accepted practice. Korolev was immensely valuable, but because he was so valuable, he was also dangerous. He consented to work because this way, at least, he got some rations, he was with his colleagues, and he was doing what he loved most of all.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it’s much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

His counterpart at Chevy, a man named Bill Holler, had once gathered all of his regional salesmen around a brand-new model, opened the door, looked at them all long and solemnly, and then slammed the door as hard as he could. “Boys,” he announced, “I’ve just slammed the door on the best goddam car in the world” – and a huge cheer went up.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

It was like that afore you got here, it’s like that now, and it’s going to be like that when you and me are gone, departed and left, and so there is only one rule, swing with it and smile.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Alexander Dow, his boss at Edison, who thought him immensely talented, tried to dissuade him. “Electricity, yes,” Dow told Ford. “That’s the coming thing. But gas – no.

One percent of the population ruled – and they were all grafters – while the other ninety-nine percent live under the worst kind of feudalism.

As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive – both aesthetically and commercially.

There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.

It hung heavily albeit secretly over the internal calculation of Democratic leaders of the period. But of course it was never discussed in the major newspapers and magazine articles that analyzed policy making in Vietnam. It was a secret subject, reflecting secret fears.

He did not like Europe, which he regarded as a lesser continent, populated with people significantly greedier and more materialistic than Americans. It was a place, he noted, where.

She was young and scared, and hadn’t realized there was time to spare.

When I was at Oldsmobile,” he said, “there was something I learned that I’ve never forgotten. There was an old guy there who was an engineer, and he had been at GM a long time, and he gave me some advice. He told me, whatever you do, don’t let GM do it first.” That was it, Davis thought later – the Detroit line, the symbol of the protected industry. Don’t let GM do it first, let the other guy make the early, expensive mistakes.

In 1953, at the beginning of the Eisenhower era and the glory years of the auto industry, Hudson’s had done $153 million in retail sales; in 1981 the downtown Hudson’s had done only $44 million – a figure, if adjusted for inflation, about 6 percent of the 1953 total.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

A good team was simply a group of very disparate athletes who assembled each day from radically different lives and – with luck – for one shared moment put aside their differences, their dislikes, their egos and their rivalries, harnessing their energies towards a common goal.

I added another chapter, the story of John Paton Davies, one of the most distinguished of the China hands who had had his career savaged during the McCarthy years. The section reflected my belief that in a better and healthier society he or someone like him might have been sitting in as Assistant Secretary of State during the Vietnam decisions.

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

There’s a great quote by Julius Irving that went, ‘Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.’

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

These days there’s all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

I would do a book about how and why we had gone to war in Vietnam, and about the men who were the architects of the war. The basic question behind the book was why men who were said to be the ablest to serve in government in this century had been the architects of what struck me as likely to be the worst tragedy since the Civil War.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

Always stay in with the outs.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don’t want to do it.

He understood that the key to success, the secret to it, was the mastery of the grunt work, all the little details.

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One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.

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Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

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Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

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he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

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Education was central to reporting.

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ingenue whose career was winding down

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particular rootlessness of the society had always lent itself to powerful extremes of both the left and the right, there was, in the volatility and evanescence of the culture an atmosphere ripe for extremism, each side with its own Utopian dreams, each side driving the other to a more polarized position.

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Was he the kind of man you wanted next to you in a foxhole?—a saying used almost always by men who had never been in foxholes about other men who had never been in foxholes either.

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She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.

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Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.

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He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

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He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

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They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.

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Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.

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He was ever conscious of his obligation to play well. Late in his career, when his legs were bothering him and the Yankees had a comfortable lead in a pennant race, a friend of his, columnist Jimmy Cannon, asked him why he played so hard—the games, after all, no longer meant so much. “Because there might be somebody out there who’s never seen me play before,” he answered.

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When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

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If you have to write it down, you don’t know it well enough,

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It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.

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