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Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.
— David Halberstam
There was, I found, always more to learn.
— David Halberstam
She had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.
— David Halberstam
Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
— David Halberstam
Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing
— David Halberstam
Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person - the two are often different.
— David Halberstam
Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.
— David Halberstam
As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive - both aesthetically and commercially.
— David Halberstam
He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
— David Halberstam
One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.
— David Halberstam
Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.
— David Halberstam
The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.
— David Halberstam
When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.
— David Halberstam
He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
— David Halberstam
But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;
— J. Jack Halberstam
He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was.
— David Halberstam
It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.
— David Halberstam
The ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.
— David Halberstam
To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.
— Judith "Jack" Halberstam
True wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.
— David Halberstam
His body language was that of someone frozen and not yet thawed out.
— David Halberstam
The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.
— David Halberstam
If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and somewhat resentful about doing it
— David Halberstam
In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.
— David Halberstam
Always stay in with the outs.
— David Halberstam
Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,
— David Halberstam
He knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.
— David Halberstam
These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
— David Halberstam
One percent of the population ruled - and they were all grafters - while the other ninety-nine percent live under the worst kind of feudalism.
— David Halberstam
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
— David Halberstam
(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),
— David Halberstam
She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.
— David Halberstam
She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.
— David Halberstam
He was more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.
— David Halberstam
The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.
— David Halberstam
He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.
— David Halberstam
His was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,
— David Halberstam
The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.
— David Halberstam
David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.
— David Halberstam
The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.
— David Halberstam
He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.
— David Halberstam
All professions have some element of theater to them.
— David Halberstam
The telephone was a sign of being rushed.
— David Halberstam
Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
— David Halberstam
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
— David Halberstam
QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
— David Halberstam
Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
— David Halberstam
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
— David Halberstam
The little things were not little things, because it was the accumulation of little things that made big things happen.
— David Halberstam
Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time;
— David Halberstam
If you have to write it down, you don't know it well enough,
— David Halberstam
He sensed that his own reticence would make it easier to restrain others.
— David Halberstam
Education was central to reporting.
— David Halberstam
A staff can be no better than the man it serves.
— David Halberstam
Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy.
— David Halberstam
If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.
— David Halberstam
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
— David Halberstam
Give people a break. It's not easy doing a life.
— Joshua Halberstam
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
— David Halberstam
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
— David Halberstam
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.
— David Halberstam
He was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.
— David Halberstam
He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.
— David Halberstam
ingenue whose career was winding down
— David Halberstam
You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.
— David Halberstam
Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.
— David Halberstam
If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.
— David Halberstam
It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.
— David Halberstam
He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.
— David Halberstam
Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.
— David Halberstam
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.
— David Halberstam
It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.
— David Halberstam
Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.
— David Halberstam
