"Your job description as a journalist is to……" — Steig Larsson
"Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description."
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113 Quotes by Steig Larsson
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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one…
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article,…
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That…
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try…
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical…
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea…
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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.
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What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
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Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have…
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When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its…
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In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before…
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
— Michele Bachmann
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
— Honore de Balzac
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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
— Christopher Bond
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The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant…
— Madeleine Albright
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
— Herman Cain
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government…
— Chris Chocola
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy…
— Francesca Annis
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Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.
— Theodore Beale
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be…
— Reginald Fessenden
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick…
— William G. Bainbridge
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