"People who think there is something pedestrian about……" — Rick Bragg
"People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant."
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25 Quotes by Rick Bragg
Rick Bragg has 25 quotes on this site.
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It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide…
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The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and…
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The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the…
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It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
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When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the…
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I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing…
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I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the…
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Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad,…
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And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and…
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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
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Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
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The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
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More Ignorant Quotes
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person…
— Abu Bakr
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design…
— John Adams
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
— Annie Besant
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
— Mary J. Blige
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