"When you do a job like this you……" — John Pomfret
"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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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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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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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested…
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
— Luis Barragan
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
— Bernard Baruch
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
— George Ade
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I love cold, rainy weather.
— Catherine Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems…
— Adele
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
— John Betjeman
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