Anthony Sampson quotes

“In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.”
-- Anthony Sampson

Source : 1965 TheAnatomy of BritainToday, ch.9.

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“Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.”
-- Anthony Sampson

Source : Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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“Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.”
-- Anthony Sampson

Source : Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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“Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').”
-- Anthony Sampson

Source : 'Anatomy of Britain' (1962) ch. 18

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“It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.”
-- Anthony Sampson

Source : Anthony Sampson (1983). “The money lenders”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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“Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.”

“It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.”

Source : "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview, collider.com. Ocotber 6, 2010.

“In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!”

“The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.”

“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.”

“I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.”

“Nothing will replace good journalism.”

“There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!”

“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers that is not freedom of the press.”

Source : "Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote". content.time.com. January 26, 1959.

“People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.”