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24 quotes by Gregg Easterbrook

Gregg Edmund Easterbrook (born March 3, 1953) is an American writer, and a contributing editor of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly. During the National Football League season, Easterbrook writes an eclectic column called Tuesday Morning Quarterback, currently on ESPN.com. He has authored nine books (five nonfiction, one of humor, and three literary novels), and writes for op-ed pages, magazines, and journals.
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Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain... →

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Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball... →

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I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've... →

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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

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I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present... →

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It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an... →

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Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so... →

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Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong... →

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But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string... →

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You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever... →

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And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

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But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

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I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

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