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Mike Royko [1932-1997] American
Rank: 103
Writer, Columnist


Michael "Mike" Royko was a Chicago newspaper columnist, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.

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Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
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Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.
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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. Computers
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I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.
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There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
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Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.
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Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
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The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.
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God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.
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Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.
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Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.
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When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
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Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.
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Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.
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