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"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
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"You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either."

"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio."

"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."

"I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge."

"Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher."
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"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."

"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."

"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."

"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."

"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."

"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."

"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."

"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
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