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The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Jimmy Breslin

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

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Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

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As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.

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Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

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The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

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If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

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Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

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You can get some work, some jobs that will bore you until you're dead. So you better look for something that's got a little tingle to it.

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I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

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Media, the plural of mediocrity.

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Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

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If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

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Trump is larger than life.

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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

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The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

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I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

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You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.

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Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

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Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

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Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.

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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

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The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.

Jimmy Breslin