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"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that."
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"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."

"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."

"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."

"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."

"Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up."

"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."

"The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated."

"If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours."

"I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating."
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"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."


"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."


"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."


"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."


"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."


"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."


"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."
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