Jim Lehrer Quotes
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided.
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I joined NOW on an issue of pay.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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I am no more humble than my talents require.
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I'm somewhat in my own cloud.
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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
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Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.
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I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
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I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.
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What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
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There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material.
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
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I've spent a lot of time in L.A., it's always reminded me a bit of Jo'burg, which is a deeply segregated city. And L.A. is really like an apartheid city; white people just don't go to South Central. It's just a different world.
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I'm a journalist and that's what I do.
