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"I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen."
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"I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here."
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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."
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"I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it."
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"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."
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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."
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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."
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"All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content."
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"As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with."
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"I am happy and content because I think I am."
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"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."
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"But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent."
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"But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to."
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"News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind."
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"It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me."
People

"The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for."
Business

"It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio."
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"I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan."
Business

"Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm."
Family

"As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department."
People

"My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more."
Family
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