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We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. Ann Hood

Family, Halloween, Mother, Brother, Girl

We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. Henry B. Eyring

Live, World, Political, Long, Strategy

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson

Man, Better, Nothing, Educated, Who

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. Henry A. Wallace

Truth, American, Fascism, Propaganda

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. Spiro T. Agnew

Bird, Line, Only, Bottom, Some, Fit

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon Bonaparte

Four, More, Thousand, Than, Feared

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. James D. Watson

Stupid, Successful, Without, Mothers

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson

Moment, Government, Me, Without, Left

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman

Best, People, Genius, Always, Common

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times. Will Rogers

Day, Newspaper, Only, Eight, Town, About

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Me, Dictatorship, Nation, First, Against

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. William Tecumseh Sherman

Battle, Name, Think, Understand, Fame

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent. Elayne Boosler

Funny, Truth, Thought, Place, News, Pure

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis. Nikola Tesla

Political, Back, New, Crime, Will, Stick

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred. Bob Woodward

Independent, Washington, Anything, Like

I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry and grow up so I could make enough money to buy my father a big car and my mother a beautiful home with an electric washing machine and all those things she used to see in the newspapers. Trini Lopez

Family, Beautiful, Mother, Father, Car

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist! Frederic Chopin

Me, World, Easy, Artist, House, Become

While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there is something very powerful about putting it all together into an edited format in a single issue that has a narrative stretching across the themes. Michael Wolf

Together, Powerful, Information, Now

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. Dave Eggers

Art, Experience, Journalism, Think, Try

For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous. Walter Cronkite

You, Heaven, Important, Why, Newspaper

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers. Tom Wolfe

Time, World, American, Working, Real

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks. Michael D. Barnes

Time, Internet, Gun, You, Sales, Guns

My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds. Diana Gabaldon

Sports, Children, Mom, Reading, She, Her

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. Agnetha Faltskog

Child, Winter, Strong, Me, Snow, Feeling

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it. Paul LePage

Life, Sorry, My Life, Say, Alive, Worst

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity. Dave Eggers

Daily, Done, Need, Go, Year, Like

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