James Fallows Quotes

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James Fallows

Profession : Journalist

Birth : August 2, 1949

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

James Fallows

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

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The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

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A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

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