Top 20 Claud Quotes
#1. The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.
Claud Cockburn
#2. An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.
Claud Cockburn
#4. Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
Claud Cockburn
#5. Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
Claud Cockburn
#7. When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans them up a little better. All Tom knew was that when he tried to explain things to Sharon, his own thinking clarified.
Michael Flynn
#8. A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
Claud Cockburn
#9. But you make of it [life] what you can, and you do your best to enjoy the hell out of it, because it's the only life you get.
Jill Shalvis
#10. Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#11. You are always attracted towards what you can't be or what you are not or what you will never be.
If you don't know who you are, just know who you aren't.
Simple Introspection.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#12. If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.
Claud Cockburn
#13. In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#14. There's got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.
Truman Capote
#15. nothing in the universe comes without a price; that in every instance you received something you wanted, you had to give up something you had, and in every instance you lost something, you gained something you did not have.
Sharath Komarraju
#16. You never really knew a man, he said, until you saw him die
Willa Cather
#17. A son's responsibility isn't to be like his father, but to be better than him.
Jo Nesbo
#18. A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
Claud Cockburn
#19. That was emasculating." "Says the guy wearing the collar.
Chelsea Cain
#20. When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.
John Pilger
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top