"My main form of transportation at that time……" — John Pomfret
"My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd."
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John Pomfret
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27 Quotes by John Pomfret
John Pomfret has 27 quotes on this site.
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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in…
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But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are…
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When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I…
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and…
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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
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I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the…
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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have…
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More Bicycle Quotes
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If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
— David Attenborough
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
— Drew Barrymore
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world,…
— James Cameron
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A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through…
— Steve Carell
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Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're…
— Tori Amos
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It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.
— Unknown Author
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Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got…
— William Golding
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Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
— John F. Kennedy
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book…
— A A Milne
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Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.
— Bob Weir
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