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All Quotes Collection
"So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy."
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"I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News."
34
"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month."
37
"Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things."
38
"Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience."
35
"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
56
"You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important."
36
"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
News,
53
"Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have."
32
"That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into."
40
"I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age."
38
"And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events."
38
"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."
31
"I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris."
36
"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game."
41
"I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio."
32
"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."
44
"I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam."
40
"And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that."
Luck,
39
"I taught sixth grade for three and a half years."
43
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
35
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
39
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
41
"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
33
"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."
54
"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."
40
"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."
Fact,
42
"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."
39
"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
41
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
49
"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
42
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
40
"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot."
60
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
61
"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least."
42
"It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself."
38
"Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false."
38
"I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever."
19
"I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts."
67
"We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex."
45
"The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here."
57
"I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school."
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