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That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.


Tom Rachman

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TOM DELONGE We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
TOM BROKAW Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a soc...
TOM WAITS My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind m...
TOM WAITS Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new ama...
TOM SHALES The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has ...
TOM WAITS The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is...
TOM PETERS Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-perce...
TOM SHALES The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you cou...
TOM ALLEN It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
TOM STOPPARD Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, ...
TOM MORELLO There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot ...
TOM FORD