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Bob Edwards

"That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate."

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"That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate."

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"To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight."

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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

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"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given."

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"Do not waste your life over working. Live a fuller sacred life."

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"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

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"You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job."

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"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

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"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."

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"I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much."
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"I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth."
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"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize."
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"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
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"At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river."
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