Jim Lehrer Quotes
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
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No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
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I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.
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If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
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You can love someone and not like them.
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Human beings will never evolve to higher creatures if we are constantly restricted by rules and regulations.
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I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.
