Jim Lehrer Quotes
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.
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I wasn't going to be drafted to steal bases at 18.
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Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.
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'I'm just an ole redneck from Texas who ain't a Democrat or Republican, but I can look at a guy and tell whether I like him or not.'
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.
