"When I was in London at NBC, I……" — Leslie Cockburn
"When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people."
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9 Quotes by Leslie Cockburn
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When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing…
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I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the…
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Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that…
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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
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In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
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When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
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I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to…
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved.…
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The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the…
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Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process…
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Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive…
— James R Newman
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The evidence that at least one extraterrestrial civilization has visited Earth is extensive both in scope and detail. In its…
— Steven M. Greer
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Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.
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Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating…
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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext…
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