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Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

~Jimmy Breslin

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Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

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I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.

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If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

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Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

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You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.

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A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.

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The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.

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Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.

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Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: October 17th, 1930

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