Distinction Quote by Daniel Okrent

“Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.”

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Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

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It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

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That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times…

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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

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If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you.…

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I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.

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Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times'…

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I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

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The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in…

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

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I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

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Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a…

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the…

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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and…

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I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it…

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