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Bob Schieffer

"My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work."

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"My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work."

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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

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"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."

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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

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"To work is to feel alive."

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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

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"Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side."
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"And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover."
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"But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it."
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"The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families."
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"I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you."
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"But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger."
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"I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera."
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"They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary."
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"But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate."
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"Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened."
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