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David Halberstam Inspirational Quotes (14)

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Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.
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Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.
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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
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Always stay in with the outs.
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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.
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QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
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Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
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What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
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Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
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Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.
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