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NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a

leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America. Juan Williams

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. Lord Mountbatten

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. Buffy Sainte-Marie

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. Annie Dillard

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.' Jayson Williams

There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say. Blake Shelton

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them! Hattie McDaniel

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. Calvin Trillin

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. Michel de Montaigne

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously. Mariah Carey

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