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- Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives…
- The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
- One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire…
- Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never…
- People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation…
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