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Richard Ingrams
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“My motto is publish and be sued.”
Richard Ingrams (born 1937) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On BBC Radio 4 (4 May 1977), as cited in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 3rd ed. (2008), p. 162
“It is wonderful to be able to let off steam in the Eye. Wonderful, when someone annoys me, to say "let's have a go." I rely much on my instincts. When you bear in mind the material we have printed over the years, I have to rack my brains to think of stories I regret. We have tended to pick the right targets.”
Richard Ingrams (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am the first to admit we have dropped a few clangers — partly out of carelessness, partly out of an overzealous wish to run a story. The Eyes success has made us more cautious recently, particularly about business news. One has to be more careful about people in the City than when writing about, say, Margaret Thatcher, when one can be more knockabout.”
Richard Ingrams (born 1937) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mammon: Lord Gnome speaks out" The Observer (23 March 1986), p. 39
“I have developed a habit when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it.”
Richard Ingrams (born 1937) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard Ingrams' week: I'm still on the train", The Observer (13 July 2003), p. 28