Charles Kuralt Quotes
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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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.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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I'm not any kind of social reformer.
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There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.
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There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.