Serge Schmemann Quotes

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• Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
• Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil…
• What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or…
• The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
• In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia…
• Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know…
• The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.
• There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write…
• Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.
• Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be…
• Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same…
• Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of…
• A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans,…
• The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The…
• My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We…
• Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and…

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