Quotes by Bill Dedman

About Bill Dedman:

Bill Dedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, an investigative reporter, and co-author of the No. 1 bestselling book Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune.
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I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

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The colleges and other institutions of learning are going too far, in my opinion. I think 50% of those attending educational institutions, having the professions in view, would be better off with a common school education that would enable them to ea...

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Today, as in Clark's day, the U.S Senate remains a club for millionaires. No longer checked by 'instructions' from state legislatures, senators are also more likely to serve for life than they were before passage of the amendment. 'It is as difficult...

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In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.

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American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

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After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.

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History is the best guide to the future.

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Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.

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Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

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John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

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Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.

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I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

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State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.

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Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.

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Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

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Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

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If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

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Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.

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There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

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Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Dedman
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornOctober 14, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Historian
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Investigative Reporting