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• I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

  Bjorn Borg

  Character, Play, Political

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• Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Born, Stamps, Where You Are

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• I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

  Rick Warren

  Agendas, Facts, Interest

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• He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Vacation

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

  Benjamin Carson

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

  Tony Kushner

  Believe, Thinking, Debate

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• The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

  Moby

  Crazy, Wings, Needs

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• I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

  Michael Moore

  Analysts

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• I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

  Michael Moore

  Gun, Want, Able

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• Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

  William Safire

  Writing, Mean, Two

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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• I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Political, Haute Couture, Language

  "My LA: Theater, Film And Television Actress Anna Deavere Smith". Interview with Heather Wood Rudulph, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

  Juan Williams

  Nfl, Political, Jam

  "The Perils of Political Paralysis". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 14, 2013.

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• The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

  Norman Mailer

  Wisdom, Forgotten, Politician

  Norman Mailer (1970). “Cannibals and Christians”

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• The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.

  Jack Kelly

  Government, Accountability, Analysis

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• Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

  Adam McKay

  Lying, Class, Warfare

  "The F Word" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.

  E. B. White

  Philosophy, Devil, Matter

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.215, Cornell University Press

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• People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.

  Alan Colmes

  Powerful, Media, Names

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• What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

  David Dark

  Repentance

  David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.14, Zondervan

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• I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

  William Safire

  Years, Wings, Right Wing

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• The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Believe, Thinking

  Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 1, 1994.

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• Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

  William Safire

  Nuggets, Looks, News

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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• I never wanted to be a pundit.

  Robert MacNeil

  Wanted

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• You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

  Joy Behar

  Comedian, Three, Bills

  "Current’s Joy Behar Wants Conservatives ‘If They Have The Balls To Come On The Show’". Interview with Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. June 12, 2012.

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• What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue.

  Jonathan Clements

  Intelligent, Laughing, Trying

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• Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

  Bill Keller

  Want, Internet, Providers

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